[Asterisk-Users] Backup Proxy & Automatic Failover

[Olle E. Johansson]

Steve Dolloff wrote:
> I simply have 2 asterisk servers and have the clients point to a DNS SVR
> record for their proxy.  The DNS record lists the primary and secondary
> with preference for the primary.  This won't stop calls from being
> dropped if the primary goes down if you are routing them through the
> server, but it does ensure that calls placed while the primary is down
> will still go through.
> 
> You could do some load management by putting multiple servers in the DNS
> record and use a DNS server that supports round robin responses.

Please note that Asterisk itself only reads the FIRST DNS SRV record.
So Asterisk can't load balance this way, when using DNS SRV for outbound calls.

I would love to fix this, if I knew how.

/O