[Asterisk-Users] SRV Lookups *ARRGH!*

[Douglas Garstang]

Phillip.

The link to the Wiki is woefully indadequate. I have no problem adding to the documentation, as soon as I bloody understand it myself. 

The two bug links you provided appear to be almost completely unrelated to what I asked about except they touch on the subject of SRV lookups. If you can't reference the proxy to dial in sip.conf, then you lose the ability to set a whole bunch of options (such as qualify which is required for detecting CONGESTION when the proxy is down etc).

If I stick with an IP/host and refer to what's in sip.conf, Asterisk ends URI's like sip:user at 192.168.10.7 which is but ugly and breaks SIP in general.

Oh, and you know what, why is it assumed that to use open source software I have to be a seasoned C programmer who can contribute to the code? Where is that requirement stipulated?

At this point I'm almost ready to throw Asterisk out the window and suggest we spend $300,000 on the Sylantro solution.

Doug.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp von Klitzing
[mailto:klitzing at pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de]
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:13 AM
To: Douglas Garstang; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SRV Lookups *ARRGH!*


Dear Douglas!

> Asterisk is really pissing me off.
> Can someone tell me why this doesn't cause SRV lookups to be done on
> outbound calls: 

In general: If you are missing documentation then you are warmly invited 
to write and enhance the existing one (e.g. the Wiki) wherever you see 
fit. In particular you might want to edit this and add what you (and me) 
have learned:

   http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+SIP+srvlookup

> So... if I put the domain directly into the dial command an SRV lookup
> is done. If I reference it in sip.conf, an SRV lookup *IS NOT* done.
> WTF??? 

I did some work for you and searched bugs.digium.com for "srvlookup". And 
look at what I found:

  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=1805
  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=2081

Reading the bug notes you'll find that this is known - and probably even 
intended - behaviour. If you dislike it: File a bug report, write a 
patch, or find someone that's going to write it for you. Asterisk is an 
open source project, remember?

Cheers, Philipp