[Asterisk-Users] DNS SRV records

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Wed Jun 2 23:25:03 MST 2004


Duane wrote:
> Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
>> If you do not enable SRV records, you can't phone me. There's no
>> SIP proxy on edvina.net ;-)
> 
> 
> Exactly my point, by ***DEFAULT*** Asterisk won't use SRV records, even 
> if it did, it doesn't support SRV correctly (as you pointed out), and 
> using an A record is advantageous at this point in time as they 
> ***WILL*** work without expecting any type of config to be turned on...
> 
> In any case, SRV's point to A records...
> 

And my point is, if you want to use SIP outside of your LAN environment, enable SRV lookups.
If you are only using SIP to connect local SIP phones on your LAN, disabling SRV lookups
is fine.

/O



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