Hi all,

The main problem I found when testing HA setup was as following:
If master host fails, all established calls can not be correctly terminated
and can not be transferred.
The problem (as I understood it) was that sipx sets Record-Route header,
pointing to master host IP ADDRESS and not to dns name, which is common for
both master and distributed/slave host.
And all UA's will send re-Invite and Bye messages to Master host IP address.

I asked about it in the list, and was answered that it is not possible to
use dns name in the Record-Route header because of the problems of some
widely used phones (I don't remember which phones were mentioned).

So the question is: does 3.10.3 HA sipx still use ip address in Record-Route
header? And what about 4.0? 
If not, could it be a configurable option, so sipx will use dns name in the
Record-Route header but only for UA's that are known to work ok with such
header?

Regarding the overall impression of HA system: 
HA system imposes some requirements on the phones.
Media services are still not redundant, auto-attendant, voice mail, ACD
announcements will not work when master fails. BTW, does 4.0 somehow improve
that?
The most critical "points of failure" are disks and network interfaces,
which can be made redundant using operating system capabilitites...

Rgds,
Nikolay.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of milosz
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [sipx-users] state of ha in sipx
> 
> hi all,
> 
> just wondering who is using ha for their deployments and how it's been
> working for them... after having had a few conversations with people a
> while back i decided to write it off, basically.  wondering if the
> situation has improved.  in particular i'm interested in any ancillary
> problems/gotchas caused by the setups.  also interested to know if
> anyone tests their failover on a regular basis.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> milosz
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