Do I need anything else other than an SRV record to make it work?

Question

I'm trying to setup an SRV record to let users connect to a game server.

The server uses the port 27016 UDP and TCP (actually TCP is used just by steam) so I have created two SRV records:

_ARKSRV._tcp.join.domain.tld.   SRV domain.tld.
_ARKSRV._udp.join.domain.tld.   SRV domain.tld.

But when I try to ping it or use nslookup I get:

~$ ping join.domain.tld
ping: cannot resolve join.domain.tld: Unknown host

~$ nslookup -q=SRV _ARKSRV._tcp.join.domain.tld
Server:     8.8.8.8
Address:    8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find _ARKSRV._tcp.domain.tld: NXDOMAIN

I'm wondering if I need to create even an A record to make it work or what.

Answer 1

your zone records:

_ARKSRV._tcp.join.domain.tld.   SRV domain.tld.
_ARKSRV._udp.join.domain.tld.   SRV domain.tld.

do not match your lookup:

~$ nslookup -q=SRV _ARKSRV._tcp.domain.tld

Your SRV record also appears to have an incorrect syntax. Part of the reason to use an SRV record is so that you can specify port. Reference link