On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Dale Worley<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:48 -0400, M. Ranganathan wrote: >> Does our current mechanism allow each system to have its own private >> domain which could be identical to that of another system? If so, then >> the scheme I proposed adds nothing. If not, perhaps it does add >> something but is not a good idea anyway for other reasons. > > You could probably make something like that work. > > The problem is not so much can it work technically, but the chaos and > confusion of dealing with the combined system where the effective > meaning of a URI depends on where in the system the URI is sighted. The > last time humans had to deal with that was when we started traveling > outside of the 100-person villages we were born into, and we gave people > surnames so that human names would be (largely) unique. Society *could* > function with only highly-duplicated given names, but it's not the > optimal solution to the problem. > > Given that the owner of a domain name can create subdomains at will, > there is no reason to suffer with having two independent SIP systems use > the same domain. > > Dale
I would readily agree if the names we are talking about are global names. Life would get intolerably confusing if there were more than one mudumbai.ranganathan.com mapped by the root DNS ( and luckily there are 0 at present ). However, these names we are not global names. If you have two sipxecs systems with domain example.local that is perfectly fine because these are private to the LAN DNS server but our current scheme will not allow you to interconnect them without giving them different names. That being said, it is not a huge inconvenience to rename the SIP domains for interconnection purposes. > > > -- M. Ranganathan _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
