On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Duane wrote: > How's it a DNS "hack" when the SRV record includes the A record????
Because you're having to create subdoms and use them for your SIP addresses, rather than using the facilities that SIP provides to allow you to use your domain, just as you would for email. Yes you still need an A record, but you do for MXs for mail, and CNAMES for web (etc). The various RFCs has given you a perfectly usable solution, yet you choose to work around it; ergo it is a hack. > Everyone will use A records regardless... They make up part of the SRV > record so either way things aren't suddenly going to break... Yes, I use an A records to provide a name->address mapping of my hosts. I don't use A records in any of my public-facing services though. This means that in the past I've been able to change ISPs, replace faulty machines almost instantly, and renumber my network as needed by only changing the few definative A records, rather than having to update every DNS entry on every domain (some of which I don't directly control) that points at one of my machines. This is Best Common Practice for DNS administration - using CNAMEs, MXs and (increasingly) SRV RRs. Using just A records will not only mean you have an ugly contact address that doesn't correspond to your email address, but also proove to be completely unmaintainable in anything but the most trivial setups. Unfortunately, it seems from my bugreport that the powers that be are as spit over this as we are, which is a shame - I'd have hoped that RFC compliance was an obvious aim for any piece of software.... *shrug* -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
