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diff --git a/develop/print.html b/develop/print.html index 36cb826a3f..120ff4a671 100644 --- a/develop/print.html +++ b/develop/print.html @@ -1666,6 +1666,14 @@ generally not suitable if Synapse is hosted at a subdomain such as <p>It is also possible to do delegation using a SRV DNS record. However, that is generally not recommended, as it can be difficult to configure the TLS certificates correctly in this case, and it offers little advantage over <code>.well-known</code> delegation.</p> +<p>Please keep in mind that server delegation is a function of server-server communication, +and as such using SRV DNS records will not cover use cases involving client-server comms. +This means setting global client settings (such as a Jitsi endpoint, or disabling +creating new rooms as encrypted by default, etc) will still require that you serve a file +from the <code>https://<server_name>/.well-known/</code> endpoints defined in the spec! If you are +considering using SRV DNS delegation to avoid serving files from this endpoint, consider +the impact that you will not be able to change those client-based default values globally, +and will be relegated to the featureset of the configuration of each individual client.</p> <p>However, if you really need it, you can find some documentation on what such a record should look like and how Synapse will use it in <a href="https://matrix.org/docs/spec/server_server/latest#resolving-server-names">the Matrix specification</a>.</p> |