[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk failover solution

[Chris A. Icide]

Of course this solution can be broken by phones that cache DNS answers, 
and the phone may require a reboot to actually force it to go and 
contact the smart DNS server for a new ip address.

-Chris

Michael Stahl wrote:

> If your phones are setup to connect to the asterisk box by name, then 
> a smart DNS server can just point phones to the backup box after 
> failure.  However, since asterisk running on the backup box doesn't 
> know about the phones, this is only half the solution
>
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> *From:* Mohamed A. Gombolaty [mailto:mgombolaty at noorgroup.net]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:30 AM
> *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> *Subject:* [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk failover solution
>
> Dear All,
>
>  I am using Linux-High Availability between two Asterisk servers, 
> everything is fine but I do have one problem with this, When a server 
> fails and the other  assumes the ip address and start asterisk on 
> server 2, the ip phone must re-register themselves again, otherwise 
> the phones are dead.
>
>  Does anyone have Ideas of how to overcome this.
>  
>
>-- 
>Thx
>MAG
>
>  
>
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