Merge pull request #9327 from ArtfulCoder/srv_doc

README.md updated to explain SRV Record support.
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Quinton Hoole 2015-06-05 12:56:20 -07:00
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Clients are expected to consume the set or else use standard round-robin
selection from the set.
### SRV records
SRV Records are created for named ports that are part of normal or Headless
Services.
For each named port, the SRV record would have the form
`_my-port-name._my-port-protocol.my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local`.
For a regular service, this resolves to the port number and the CNAME:
`my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local`.
For a headless service, this resolves to multiple answers, one for each pod
that is backing the service, and contains the port number and a CNAME of the pod
with the format `auto-generated-name.my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local`
SRV records always contain the 'svc' segment in them and are not supported for
old-style CNAMEs where the 'svc' segment was omitted.
### Backwards compatibility
Previous versions of kube-dns made names of the for
`my-svc.my-namespace.cluster.local` (the 'svc' level was added later). For