What are the main differences between SRV records and TXT records?
- by Chris Adams
Hi there, I'm trying to consolidate domain names for the servers I look after to just use one panel instead of 3 or 4, and one thing stopping me is that the provider I originally wanted to move them to only lets me the following kinds of records:
A
MX
NS
CNAME
TXT
The first four I understand, but I'm not sure about the relationship (if any) between SRV records and TXT records.
Can I use TXT records in the place of SRV records? They both seem to be general text records to just point at a particular server without needing to specify a particular protocol, so it doesn't sound like a totally unreasonable assumption, but I'd rather check here before I break something.
If I can only set the above records, does that mean I'm essentially unable to so any SRC record redirecting?
Thanks!