On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:48:37AM -0500, Rich Adamson wrote: > >I have several asterisk 1.2.7.1 servers connected through iax2 and often > >the local asterisk would no longer see the remote one, even thought the > >link is high quality and the ping is perfect. > > > >Is there some issues to take into account about IAX2 connections? > > > >Is asterisk's DNS resolution too fragile and should I use raw IP's in my > >configs? > > The DNS resolution is somewhat fragile and/or incomplete as has been > stated previously on the list. Most notably, if asterisk cannot get dns > resolution the system basically hangs. The workaround is to establish a > dns caching server on the * box. Second, asterisk code does not properly > handle dns records that contain more then one IP address; it uses only > the first entry found within the dns response. > > Using hard coded IP addresses is one way to address the issue if that > works for you.
Thanks Rich, It confirms what I suspected. Using hardcoded IP's indeed aleviates the problem. Cheers, _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
