# If the domain part if missing from the name (so that is just has the
# service and protocol sections) then the domain given by the domain=
# config option is used. (Note that expand-hosts does not need to be
# set for this to work.)
# A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to
# ldapserver.example.com port 389
#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389
# A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to
# ldapserver.example.com port 389 (using domain=)
#domain=example.com
#srv-host=_ldap._tcp,ldapserver.example.com,389
# Two SRV records for LDAP, each with different priorities
#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,1
#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,2
# A SRV record indicating that there is no LDAP server for the domain
# example.com
#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com
```
---
### Author:  [@AlexDumi29](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/AlexDumi29)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2023, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/srv-records-in-pi-hole/65868/8 "2023-10-26T07:51:05Z")
Thank you so much for your quick response. I don't know why but it now works as it should (didn't touch it since yesterday).
---
### Author:  [@AlexDumi29](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/AlexDumi29)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2023, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/srv-records-in-pi-hole/65868/9 "2023-10-26T08:46:12Z")
There is a /etc/pihole/dnsmasq.conf.
```auto
# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
# (c) 2023 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
#
# Dnsmasq config for Pi-hole's FTLDNS
#
##################################################################################
# #
# FILE AUTOMATICALLY POPULATED BY PI-HOLE #
# ANY CHANGES MADE TO THIS FILE WILL BE LOST WHEN THE CONFIGURATION CHANGES #
# #
# IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE ANY OF THESE VALUES, CHANGE THEM IN #
# etc/pihole/pihole.toml #
# and restart pihole-FTL #
# #
# ANY OTHER CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE IN A SEPARATE CONFIG FILE #
# WITHIN /etc/dnsmasq.d/yourname.conf #
# #
# Last updated: 2023-10-26 08:02:52 #
# by FTL version vDev-8664165 #
# #
##################################################################################
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/local.list
addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/custom.list
# Don't read /etc/resolv.conf. Get upstream servers only from the configuration
no-resolv
# DNS port to be used
port=53
# List of upstream DNS server
server=127.0.0.1#5053
# Set the size of dnsmasq's cache. The default is 150 names. Setting the cache
# size to zero disables caching. Note: huge cache size impacts performance
cache-size=10000
```
etc.
There is another file '/etc/dnsmasq.conf.old'
```auto
conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d
```
---
### Author:  [@AlexDumi29](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/AlexDumi29)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/srv-records-in-pi-hole/65868/10 "2023-10-26T09:24:42Z")
Apparently the cmd nslookup's `set type=all` does not include srv. If I do `set type=all` it returns not implemented, but `set type=srv` returns the desired result.
---
### Author:  [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/srv-records-in-pi-hole/65868/11 "2023-10-26T17:36:03Z")
> [@AlexDumi29](#):
>
> There is a /etc/pihole/dnsmasq.conf.
Thanks, I skipped over the mention of version 6 where this file does exist.
---
### Author:  [@deHakkelaar](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/deHakkelaar)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/srv-records-in-pi-hole/65868/13 "2023-11-04T21:07:59Z")
EDIT: I altered below bc the target should not contain an IP but a domain name instead (with its own A or AAAA records to resolve to an IP address).
A bit late and that link of mine is a bit outdated because Pi-hole doesnt set **127.0.0.1** anymore as a local resolver in the file **/etc/resolv.conf**.
For posterity:
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ man dnsmasq
[..]
-W, --srv-host=<_service>.<_prot>.[],[[,[,[,]]]]
Return a SRV DNS record. See RFC2782 for details.
If not supplied, the domain defaults to that given
by --domain. The default for the target domain is
empty, and the default for port is one and the de-
faults for weight and priority are zero. Be careful
if transposing data from BIND zone files: the port,
weight and priority numbers are in a different or-
der. More than one SRV record for a given ser-
vice/domain is allowed, all that match are re-
turned.
```
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.d/99-my-settings.conf
srv-host=_http._tcp.home.web,target_domain,20080,10,1
```
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ pihole-FTL --test
dnsmasq: syntax check OK.
```
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ sudo systemctl reload pihole-FTL.service
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$
```
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ nslookup -type=srv _http._tcp.home.web 127.0.0.1
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
_http._tcp.home.web service = 10 1 20080 target_domain.
```
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ dig +short @127.0.0.1 _http._tcp.home.web srv
10 1 20080 target_domain.
```
As an example how its used to load balance APT mirrors (round robin):
```auto
dehakkelaar@ph6b:~$ dig +short _http._tcp.apt.xbian.org srv
10 1 80 xbian-apt.mirrorservice.org.
10 1 80 apt.xbian.org.
10 1 80 apt1.xbian.org.
```