[AusNOG] SRV Records

[Shain Singh]

On 16 July 2014 08:41, Joshua Small <JSmall at daraco.com.au> wrote:

>  Ø  What sort of damage could blocking them be causing or there is no way
> to tell?
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> The expected scenario is a user opens Outlook, only to receive a popup
> that “settings could not be detected” or similar. Email will still work,
> but the popup will continue to recur every few minutes, even when you hit
> “close” and expect it to stay that way. If anything changes at the server
> side, such as a an addressing change or DR failover, you won’t detect it
> and go offline.
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>

This is *typically* not the case for external users. Common Microsoft
enterprise deployments only need SRV records for OCS/Communicator/Lync for
external users for SIP services. Anything else is not relevant to the
outside world.

Email off-list if you want a deeper explanation of Microsoft Exchange
nuances.



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