Minecraft DNS SRV record correct setup

Question

I am building <datalist> options as below:

data.suggestions.forEach(function(element) {
    $('datalist').append(`<option value="${element['description'].split(' ')[0].replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '')}">${element['description']}</option>`);
});

My element['description'] has HTML tags, which I would like to preserve. However, the appended children have their HTML formatting stripped.

Please advise.

Solution

The SRV record should be created for _minecraft._tcp.mine.rlnd.cz, not _minecraft._tcp.rlnd.cz.

More Info:

SRV records are not always directly under the domain name - _service._proto.domain.com. I think this may be a fairly common misconception with SRV, partly because the poster-child application for it, Exchange/Outlook, uses the domain portion of your email address and a lot of information online generally tells you that 'you need an SRV record for your domain'.

If you enter a.b.domain.com into an SRV aware application, it will lookup the SRV record for _service._proto.a.b.domain.com.

Comments

[USD Matt]

Are your players entering 'rlnd.cz' as the server? If they are entering 'mine.rlnd.cz' then I expect the SRV record would need to be _minecraft._tcp.mine.rlnd.cz. (I'm assuming the minecraft client prefers SRV records over A if they are present)

[MDMarra]

I'm not sure why this question is beginning to collect close votes. Game servers are not automatically off-topic, especially something like this.

[Mailo Světel]

@USDMatt: Will give it try. Do i have to wait for it spreads across all DNS servers or i can try it right after the rule will be written?

[Mailo Světel]

@MDMarra: Where do you see the close votes?

[MDMarra]

@Mailo When you have a certain amount of reputation (3000 I think) you can see how many people have voted to close a question. It takes 5 and this question only has 1 right now, so I wouldn't worry about it. Sometimes when people see "game server" they immediately vote to close it, since this is a site for people that run systems professionally. You are a professional, right? wink wink

[USD Matt]

You may find it doesn't work immediately if DNS resolvers used by you/players have cached the fact that the above SRV record didn't exist last time they looked it up. If a manual nslookup/dig works from your command line, then it should work in the client.

[Mailo Světel]

@USDMatt: It's working. Make it Answer a you'll get a candy ;)

[Spence]

I've never touched anything Minecraft-related but, zow, I'm surprised and pleased to learn that it uses SRV records! Maybe someday SRV records will actually become useful!

[Jon Hanna]

@EvanAnderson in a way it shouldn't be too surprising: Having support for SRV spread to all Minecraft clients required a change to one application. Meanwhile, having several servers on different ports on the same IP was common, so there was an immediate benefit. Compare with the idea of using SRV for HTTP; the number of clients that would have to change, and the small immediate benefit. The benefits of open protocols are great, but this is one case where there being only one implementation has the advantage.

[BASEER HAIDER JAFRI]

Please Clarify your requirements and code

[charlietfl]

<option> tag only accepts text. Use a dropdown type script instead if you need formatting. Or add a data attribute to reference back to the original array if that's what you need

[Moshe Shmukler]

Do you know any components that I could use?

[Jon Hanna]

Well, that confirms that I'd done the right thing, so my problem is elsewhere, but at least you've narrowed down my problem space.

[Moshe Shmukler]

This is not how you use variables with backquotes, but if your syntax would have been correct, how is this relevant?

[Moshe Shmukler]

you think that you did. :)

[tiborK]

I'm trying to help you here not argue.