[Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Mon Jul 26 07:17:09 MST 2004


Gregory Youngblood wrote:

> It appears * doesn't use both IP addresses returned by DNS for
> sip.broadvoice.com as a failover method. Depending on how * works (I'm still
> learning, and have been battling bad hardware it turns out...) you may be
> able to use a work around.
> 
> This can help in several situations, but the downside is you no longer gain
> the benefit of DNS. If they change IP addresses, and you don't check
> periodically to make sure you have the new ones, you may end up with
> problems. However, when you know one gateway is having issues, this will
> prevent your system from accidentally using it.
We check at each registration, but only use the first DNS SRV record.
Yes, that is a bug. Yes, would be great if a coder could fix it.

The easiest first-level hack would be to randomly choose on of the SRV records
provided they have the same weight.


/O



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