[Asterisk-Users] How to handle "provider UNREACHABLE" in the dialplan?

[Ronald Wiplinger]

Florian Overkamp wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
>
> Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
>> voipbuster/xxxx           194.221.62.201              5060     
>> UNREACHABLE
>> voipstunt/xxxxx             194.120.0.200               5060     
>
>> a reload shows than:
>>
>> voipbuster/xxxx           80.239.235.200             5060     
>> UNREACHABLE
>> voipstunt/xxxxx           194.120.0.200               5060     
>> UNREACHABLE
>
> Seems like voipbuster is doing round-robin DNS for redundancy. Bad 
> choice with asterisk, since asterisk only looks up DNS on startup or 
> reloads.
>
> You could read out all the entries in the DNS zone and create your own 
> list of entries in /etc/hosts, and then create multiple asterisk 
> peers: voipbuster1, voipbuster2, etc... Then you can use regular 
> dialplan logic to cycle through all of them. 

Florian,

that is exactly the point what I am looking for. How can I use the next 
peer in the dial logic? I was trying DIALSTATUS, ... but I could not 
make it.

bye

Ronald