DEPRECATED - This doesn’t work properly Please see this post for an updated version which works! One of the advantages of using Consul for service discovery is that besides an HTTP API, you can also query it by DNS. The DNS server is listening on port 8600 by default, and you can query both A records or SRV records from it. SRV records are useful as they contain additional properties (priority, weight and port), and you can get multiple records back from a single query, letting you do load ...
