[asterisk-users] Improving Asterisk's DNS support

[Per Jessen]

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> 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:

Maybe that's where you need to start - by fixing the iffy DNS? :-)

> - no failover to other DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf (might be a C
> library thing)

That's not the responsibility of the application.

> - dnsmgr doesn't support SIP (yikes!):
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9153 - other randomness (please
> contribute your own experiences)

I haven't been using Asterisk for long, but I have not yet experienced
any DNS-related oddities. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich