You really should just make the IP an alias of the server and just configure your DNS. It wont be very usable for IM remotely either if you use IP as the SIPDOMAIN. Actually, IM will only MAYBE work internally, it WILL NOT work or confederate if you take that path, my young Paduan.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:01 PM, WORLEY, Dale R (Dale) <[email protected]>wrote: > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Shay [ > [email protected]] > > During the setup portion of installation of Sipx, is it possible to enter > the IP address of the server as the hostname, and / or give the domain name > as the IP address of the server, thereby making all sip traffic headers IP > based and eliminating the need for SRV records or host names? > > The reason I ask is because in the event that our DNS server goes down for > a reboot, all the phones in the office (LG Nortel LIP-68xx) lose > connectivity due to not being able to resolve hostnames until the DNS server > comes back up. > > Is there a supported way to keep Sipx from being reliant on name > resolution? > ________________________________________ > > It's not officially supported, but I think it works OK to use the server's > IP address as the SIP domain. > > But you should avoid doing that for anything other than pure test systems, > because you have no ability to change the address of the server. You should > have redundant DNS servers. (You have redundant DNS servers already, right? > Because if your DNS server goes down, all your computers stop being able to > connect to other computers.) > > Dale > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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