[Asterisk-Users] Re: DNS SRV records

[Duane]

Darren Edmundson wrote:

> I apologise if I misunderstood your aims, however surely it is infinitely
> better to try and get asterisk standards compliant by default (preferably
> before the 1.0/1.1 release) rather than resort to promoting DNS hacks to
> get around what should be an easy enough bug to fix.

How's it a DNS "hack" when the SRV record includes the A record????

> There is a chicken-and-egg situation. If everyone uses only A-records then
> there will be no impetus for UAs and servers to support SRVs. If servers
> don't support it, then Admins will either choose to use only A records, or
> be forced to.

Everyone will use A records regardless... They make up part of the SRV 
record so either way things aren't suddenly going to break...

> I remember hearing of one common windoze one which even recently, but that
> might have been a bulk-mailer, and I think it's probably a desirable
> feature that a large proportion of spam be undeliverable :)

Apparently the infected windows machines are delivering the spam 
directly to the email client these days...

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