[asterisk-users] Improving Asterisk's DNS support

[Remco Post]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>  After several years of using Asterisk I have always been frustrated
> by the support for DNS.  I have seen all kinds of strange behavior
> when Asterisk is used on a system with "iffy" DNS servers:
> 
> - no failover to other DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf (might be a C
> library thing)

wasn't there some setting for that? I run a dns caching deamon om my *
box (speeds up enum lookups big time), but i seem to recall that some
dns settings could be made....

> - chan_sip will sometimes mark even local SIP peers as unreachable
> during/after any DNS problems - why?

because your * can't resolve the names any more?

> - dnsmgr doesn't support SIP (yikes!):
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9153
> - other randomness (please contribute your own experiences)
> 
>  What can we do about improving this situation?  At the very least we
> need to extend DNS manager support to SIP.  I'm willing to pay for
> this and any other Asterisk DNS improvements.  Any other ideas?
> 


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