[asterisk-users] multiple host= in sip.conf

[Anthony Francis]

David Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 15:29 -0500, Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>   
>> Bryan Laird wrote:
>>     
>>> for inbound connections how does asterisk manage host=host-name 
>>> returning multiple A records... will
>>> it allow authentication for any of the IP's returned?
>>>
>>> I would assume that in the case of 'inbound' if you specify a host-name 
>>> that you have PTR records for you could do it in one entry
>>> again I'm making a blind assumption.
>>>       
>> As I understand it, Asterisk does a DNS lookup on load/reload and uses 
>> whatever the first IP address returned.
>>
>> allow= and deny= is what should be used for access control.  Not the 
>> host= line.  The host= line is normally used for Asterisk -> Device stuff.
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> Does that mean that even when dynamic dns entries exist and the time to
> live  is set to 15 minutes asterisk will continue to try using the old
> expired results?
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> Dave
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it does mean that, however it updates at the sip registration timeout, 
the point in which the device re-registers. So make sure your reg 
timeout in sip.conf and in the device are below 15 minutes and its not 
an issue. FYI the default timeout is 3600 seconds, 1 hour.