[asterisk-users] Loosing IAX connection between offices

[DM]

On 11/30/06, Dave Fullerton <dfullertasterisk at shorelinecontainer.com> wrote:
> DM wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > 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.
>
> <snip>
>
> 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

I assume you are referring to Method 3 listed here:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Connect+2+servers

I'll have to give it a try.