Can't ping a SRV Subdomain?

[kevindu59163]

Hello,

i’m new to this world of DNS and i recently open a minecraft server for my friend and i.
And i set up a DNS record like xxxx.ovh (for example)
then i set up a SRV record like mc.xxxx.ovh ( i did this because i have redirected the port 25565 to 21226 )
for joining the server, all is ok. But when i want to ping mc.xxxx.ovh, it doens’t work, i got a
" Ping request could not find host mc.ntakoui.ovh. Please check the name and try again. "
and i wanted to ping because i’ve created some scripting with python for getting the server status

is it possible to do that thing ? Thanks for reading !

[Laudian]

You need to run ping against the hostname of your A/AAAA record, in this case xxxx.ovh.
The SRV record only works for minecraft, not for ping.

[kevindu59163]

Oh ok then, Thanks you !