RFC 2782 says administrators should use weight 0 when there is no server selection to do, and that weight-0 records should have a very small chance of selection when weighted (>0) records are present at the same priority.

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
IETF
Product
DNS
Subsystem
SRV record
Deployment
any
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 2782 (February 2000), current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP trunk redundancy and failover design: source note sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero,
  title  = {SIP trunk redundancy and failover design: source note sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero},
  note   = {Source note sip-trunk-redundancy-design-srv-weight-zero, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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