[asterisk-users] Realtime SIP, multiple AX servers question

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 01/05/2011 09:39 AM, Bryan Field-Elliot wrote:

> We have one table which is serving both purposes (peers and reg). When
> we want to route a call to an ATA, we first look up that ATA's regserver
> in that table, and then construct a SIP URI based upon that regserver
> address. In that way, we route the call through the server to which the
> ATA is currently registered. So I guess we're covered already in the
> scenario you describe. It seems like not a great design to have to have
> a private sipregs table for every server in our pool, especially given
> that the pool will grow (or maybe shrink) over time. Is that really the
> recommended design? I haven't seen any articles describing that setup
> for RealTime in a multi-server environment.

Asterisk Realtime was designed to make dynamic configuration possible, 
and then later extended to provide a way to store *some* data outside of 
astdb. It was never intended to provide a failover or data-sharing 
mechanism, and none of the code attempts to take that into account.

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