[Asterisk-Users] Workaround for BroadVoice and possibly others...

[Robert Jackson]

If I am not mistaken that is similar to what VoicePulse Connect just
changed to.  In there e-mail on how to configure it they have nearly the
same senario.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Shaw [mailto:chriss at watertech.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:14 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Workaround for BroadVoice and 
> possibly others...
> 
> 
> I have an idea, tell me if this wouldn't work... I know it's 
> really ugly, but it might help some people until we can get 
> round robin DNS checks for peers...
> 
> Since * does not do GetHostByName() again until you reload 
> your config, and BroadVoice and I'm sure other sip providers 
> are using round robin DNS, why not create 2 [<your server 
> here>-out] contexts in sip.conf, and then in your dialplan do 
> something like this
> 
> sip.conf -
> 
> -snip-
> [broadvoice-out]
> host=147.135.0.128
> 
> -snip-
> [broadvoice-out2]
> host=147.135.8.128
> 
> extensions.conf -
> 
> -snip-
> [sipphones]
> 
> exten => _9NXXNXXNXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@broadvoice-out,60)
> exten => _9NXXNXXNXXX,102,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:1}@broadvoice-out2,60)
> exten => _9NXXNXXNXXX,203,Congestion()
> 
> Any thoughts? I know, I know... UGLY... but it would work I think...
> 
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