[asterisk-users] Loosing IAX connection between offices

[Dave Fullerton]

DM wrote:
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> Office A is set up with refresh dns and cron job for iax2 reload every
> 5 minutes.  It rarely looses connection to Office B.
> 
> Surprisingly, Office B is the one loosing connection with Office A.
> I'm surprised because Office A is the one with the static IP address.
> When I do a IAX2 Show Peers, the connection will show as UNKNOWN or
> UNAVAILABLE.  After loosing connection, the only way I can get it to
> reestablish is to reboot the * box.  IAX2 reload doesn't solve it.  I
> haven't been able to establish if it loosing the connection at a
> specific duration.  Though, it seems to be random.

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Any reason you don't have Office B register with Office A and thereby 
tell Office A what IP office B has? It would remove the need to refresh 
DNS and reload IAX2 all the time. I use this method to connect my home 
system (dynamic) to my work system (static) and it works well.

-Dave