[Asterisk-Users] Connecting to a cluster of SIP servers

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> You can't use round robin DNS. Round robin DNS will cause every SIP 
> packet to potentially go through a different static path, which will 
> break things.

Is it not safe to re-lookup the DNS records if the peer goes unreachable? 
It seems a bit broken to just mark the peer as unreachable and keep 
sending packets to the dead host when there are others listed by DNS as 
able to handle traffic for that domain.

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