If you had installed sipx on its own domain (preferably subdomain) it can have its own DNS and not be involved with that of your AD domain.
In your case, I think I would have done this AND made sipx the primary DNS server for your office by adding a forward zone for your AD domain. I prefer to do this at the firewall, because then the phone look to the firewall for DNS and forward everything OUT execept the AD domain (goes directly to windows server) and the sipx subdomain (goes directly to sipx server). What are the capabilities of the firewall you have there? On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:35 AM, IT Manager <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Todd,**** > > Thanks – we do have an inverter system for the whole office that I am > trying to get to shutdown things in an orderly fashion – however it hasn’t > been happening as yet. In the meantime I have tried to set the startup > delay for the sipx server to be way after the booting of the AD controller > (DNS machine), but that I am already at 5 minutes delay and it’s still not > working.**** > > Should I try to reconfigure the SIPX server to do it’s own DNS and have > the phones ignore the AD DNS entirely? Would this fix the issue?**** > > Also, I am still learning my way around linux/sipx and so finding logs if > it’s not in the WebUI could be a problem – can you point me where to look > and what to look for?**** > > Laurie**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Todd Hodgen > *Sent:* 15 March 2012 09:21 > *To:* 'Discussion list for users of sipXecs software' > *Subject:* Re: [sipx-users] Sipxservices**** > > ** ** > > Have you considered a UPS product that has orderly shutdown capability? > There are some that will do controlled shutdown and startup of select > devices and in your selected order. You could have it turn up your DNS > services first, with sipXecs system coming back online after a selected > timeframe, then followed by your POE switches that feed phones.**** > > ** ** > > A detailed review of the logs after a power failure should help understand > what is failing.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *IT Manager > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:10 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [sipx-users] Sipxservices**** > > ** ** > > Dear All,**** > > ** ** > > I am struggling with something and am not sure of the method to fix it. ** > ** > > ** ** > > Bit of background first: We are in Africa and so the power situation here > is not great – we do have battery backup power, but it doesn’t last long > enough to keep systems running throughout the night. So basically every > time the backup fails, everything crashes. Then when power is restored all > the servers boot up again and most things start up ok. This brings me to > the problem I am having with SIPX.**** > > ** ** > > It starts up fine and looking at the services it seems that everything is > running OK. However, none of the phones (GXP2000) or soft phone (Xlite) > will register with the system. If I restart all the services then things go > back to normal and the registrations work just fine.**** > > ** ** > > I *think* that the problem lies with the DNS: Because my AD DNS servers > take quite a while to start up, I think that the SIPX server starts faster > than them. In some way this causes something to fail in the SIP server. > What exactly that is I don’t know and am not sure where to look.**** > > ** ** > > Any thoughts as to where to look or possible solutions to the situation?** > ** > > ** ** > > Laurie**** > > ** ** > > PS this is one of the reasons I can’t roll it out to the office yet - if I > have to manually reset it every time power returns.**** > > ** ** > > **** > > [image: Description: D:\Shared Documents\MAF\MAF Art\5X-FRM-sig.jpg]**** > > Laurie Nason**** > > **IT Manager****** > > Mission Aviation Fellowship ****Uganda******** > > [image: Description: D:\Shared Documents\MAF\MAF Art\International MAF > Logo - White-sig.png]**** > > Online Info: www.maf-uganda.org **** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > 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: 434.465.6833 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 Ask about our Internet Fax services! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Helpdesk Customers: http://myhelp.myitdepartment.net Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net
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