[Asterisk-Dev] Possible res_config Bounty / Contract

[Daniel Swarbrick]

Nathan Alberti wrote:
> The problem is I do not wish the connection back to the central database 
> (which potentially could be over the public Internet) to be a raw MySQL 
> connection, I would prefer to see something better suited to the 
> application (XML ??). I though about using res_perl (which I'm sure 
> would work), but the boxes are intended to be as lite as possible on 
> embedded hardware so I think there will be better options with some 
> slight work.

Why not just run MySQL protocol (which supports compression AFAIK) 
through an IPSEC tunnel?

I think a bigger concern is, what does Asterisk RT do if it can't 
contact its database server?