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<refsect1 id='service_discovery'>
    <title>SERVICE DISCOVERY</title>
    <para>
        The service discovery feature allows back ends to automatically find the
appropriate servers to connect to using a special DNS query. This feature is
not supported for backup servers.
    </para>
    <refsect2 id='configuration'>
        <title>Configuration</title>
        <para>
            If no servers are specified, the back end automatically uses service
discovery to try to find a server. Optionally, the user may choose to use
both fixed server addresses and service discovery by inserting a special
keyword, <quote>_srv_</quote>, in the list of servers. The order of
preference is maintained. This feature is useful if, for example, the user
prefers to use service discovery whenever possible, and fall back to a
specific server when no servers can be discovered using DNS.
        </para>
    </refsect2>
    <refsect2 id='domain_name'>
        <title>The domain name</title>
        <para>
            Please refer to the <quote>dns_discovery_domain</quote> parameter in the
<citerefentry> <refentrytitle>sssd.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum> </citerefentry> manual page for more details.
        </para>
    </refsect2>
    <refsect2 id='search_protocol'>
        <title>The protocol</title>
        <para>
            The queries usually specify _tcp as the protocol. Exceptions are documented
in respective option description.
        </para>
    </refsect2>
    <refsect2 id='reference'>
        <title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            For more information on the service discovery mechanism, refer to RFC 2782.
        </para>
    </refsect2>
</refsect1>