On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 19:42, Chris Albertson wrote: > --- Steve Sobol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Lawson wrote: > > > > > I was just about to write the same thing. It says "busy". Is is > > REALLY > > > busy or is something else wrong? > > > > > > This on the heels of switch-1.nufone.net being missing out of DNS. > > > > > > We have customers that expect their VOIP to work. Is there anybody > > > > > that's reliable? > > I've been doing some testing and so far I'm not 100% impressed > by the VOIP services I've seen. They provide a good service but > my local phone company and AT&T longdistance service is more > reliable.
That would be a big DUH! Now the question comes down to choice and price. > But this is not to say _you_ can't built a reliable VOIP based > system. Get _two_ providers and set up your dial plan in > extensions.conf to "fail over" if one service fails to > connect to dial via the next one and finally if both fail > use pstn. your users will see a system the "just works". > > About Nufone's problem. I bet they'll start thinking about > getting a backup DNS service and maybe geographic deversity. > A company should be able to even stay on the air if there is a > server room fire using techniques like round robin DNS and > West cost and East coast servers run by different, unrelated > hosting companies. Of course had you paid attention to the problem you would have been able to understand that no DNS arrangement would fix having the root servers modified by a registrar who screwed up. DNS servers don't work if your whois doesn't point to the proper places. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
