[Asterisk-Users] SRV Lookups *ARRGH!*

[Philipp von Klitzing]

Hey Douglas,

> The link to the Wiki is woefully indadequate. I have no problem adding
> to the documentation, as soon as I bloody understand it myself. 

Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear! :-)

>  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=1805
>  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=2081
>
> The two bug links you provided appear to be almost completely
> unrelated to what I asked about except they touch on the subject of
> SRV lookups.

Not really - if you read carefully enough you will find these two quotes 
in the two bug reports - but with almost all your energy spent with being 
upset you probably missed them... ;->

markster: "...Fortunately srv lookups are bypassed by peer 
declarations..."

markster: "If you have a sip friend/peer entry for budgetphone.nl it will 
not lookup the SRV record but will use the host you have specified. If 
you do not have "srvlookup=yes" in your sip.conf in the general section, 
SRV records will never be searched."

> Oh, and you know what, why is it assumed that to use open source
> software I have to be a seasoned C programmer who can contribute to
> the code? Where is that requirement stipulated? 

Nowhere - you just invented that. Why should you need to know C in order 
to put a bounty, or just formulate well documented bug report? Or where 
does the Wiki require C knowledge (talking about "contributing", not 
"using" - you don't need C skills to at all to "use" asterisk).

Asterisk is not perfect, there is a lot of "work in progress" (sometimes 
too much), but it is the only one of its kind, it works, and it gets 
better day-by-day. And if you find a way to help with that (and 
preferably a way that doesn't step on people's collective toes): great!

Cheers, Philipp