It seems to me: That every Asterisk system that is being used for PBX or other "internal" as well as external use should have a local DNS, run either on the same box or on an adjacent box.
A simple BIND installation is low overhead. If remote phones use it for DNS then if they are on the net, they have all info they need to make a call anywhere, and commonly called locations are either in DNS or cached. Then there are no "DNS" based failures unless the Net is down or the Asterisk box is down. Well, now, I should do as I preach and install Bind on our Asterisk box. However since we do have multiple DNS locally, we are effectively following this advice. C. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
