So over the past few days, I’ve been trying to hack together a setup at my home for this website using an old Thinkpad T41 on my cable modem connection (yea…I didn’t think I’d need a ton of bandwidth…yet!). Of course port 80 and 443 are blocked by default since Optimum Online doesn’t want us hosting servers on a non-business account, so I was running this on port 85 and 886 for HTTP and HTTPS respectively. Simple right? Yes, up until you try to make DNS work all nice and pretty (a.k.a. no port numbers needed in the address).

An absolutely perfect solution to this dilemma would have been DNS SRV entries. Or they would have been if any browser in existence supported them. I can’t really fathom why they aren’t supported either.
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