On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Duane wrote: > Darren Edmundson wrote: > My argument isn't about the standards or other software in general, my > argument is how asterisk (and in this case only asterisk) comes, that is > with SRV *disabled*, and the fact many people wouldn't understand what > it's for, or why they should enable it.
I apologise if I misunderstood your aims, however surely it is infinitely better to try and get asterisk standards compliant by default (preferably before the 1.0/1.1 release) rather than resort to promoting DNS hacks to get around what should be an easy enough bug to fix. > That is what my point is, until asterisk has it enabled by default, and > all the current user base use a version of asterisk that supports it > properly is there all that much point in promoting it so heavily? There is a chicken-and-egg situation. If everyone uses only A-records then there will be no impetus for UAs and servers to support SRVs. If servers don't support it, then Admins will either choose to use only A records, or be forced to. Currently the SIP install base is small enough that things can still be fixed. The more people out there with non-compliant setups, the more difficult it will be to make the change. By all means, if you're running business critical services then use the A-record hack... but turn on SRV lookups on your own host. Be liberal in what you accept, strict in what you produce, as the saying goes. Since I can't see any obvious discussion of this on the -dev list archive, or in mantis, I've opened a bug report to see if the powers that be agree... > Now how many pieces of MTA software out of the box have MX record > lookups disabled??? I'd hazard a guess at none... I remember hearing of one common windoze one which even recently, but that might have been a bulk-mailer, and I think it's probably a desirable feature that a large proportion of spam be undeliverable :) - Darren -- Darren Edmundson - Internet & 3G Technologist Voice/Video: +447782324636 Fax: +447782799422 MSN:[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
