Hello,

in this case this DNS record comes from a provider, and they want to receive 
traffic over it. So, I doubt that this was done intentionally from them, its 
more an oversight or process issue on their side.

Cheers,

Henning

-- 
Henning Westerholt – https://skalatan.de/blog/
Kamailio services – https://gilawa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Дилян Палаузов <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 4:04 PM
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: [SR-Users] Re: Dealing with failed SRV peers

Hello,

announcing permanently invalid servers over DNS is a valid way to reduce 
unwanted traffic. 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/OtherTricks explains 
the logic with fake MX records for SMTP.  That fake records did help me to 
reduce backscatters in email terms long time ago.

The same logic for announcing fake DNS records shall be applicable also to SIP.

Greetings
  Дилян

-----Original Message-----
From: Henning Westerholt <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: [SR-Users] Re: Dealing with failed SRV peers
Date: 12/15/2022 05:59:12 PM

Hello Sebastian,
 
actually, it’s the fault is by the provider, that they do not manage their DNS 
records properly. It makes no sense to return non-working systems in the end, 
but some of them do not care.
 
I would probably just use the dst_blocklist functionality, probably with a 
shorter internal TTL.
Regarding the peers that are having only one server which fails, I would just 
route to another provider in this case, if they can not bother to fix it or to 
provide redundancy.
 
You could also implement a script that fetches periodically the SRV record, 
create a dispatcher cfg from it and then uses dispatcher. You could use active 
OPTIONS ping probing, or also manually deactivate the failed hosts for the time 
period.
 
Cheers,
 
Henning
 
--
Henning Westerholt –https://skalatan.de/blog/ Kamailio services 
–https://gilawa.com
 
From: Sebastian Damm <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 7:29 AM
To: Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: [SR-Users] Dealing with failed SRV peers
 
Hi,
 
we have some Kamailios working as outboundproxy. So they get requests from 
internal systems and send them to different providers. From time to time, one 
provider returns a server as primary resource which is currently unavailable.
 
I guess if the internal systems connected directly to the target, they would 
remember the failed server and remember to always use the server with second 
priority at least until DNS refresh time. In our setup, since every request is 
"new" for Kamailio, it doesn't remember, which host is reachable or not.
 

Example:
target: example.com
 
_sip._udp.example.com SRV resolves to:
10 192.0.2.42 5060
20 198.51.100.42 5060
30 203.0.113.42 5060


192.0.2.42 is unavailable. Still, Kamailio uses it for every new request and 
failover to 198.51.100.42 occurs only after timeouts hit.


Is there a best practice for solving this? I have played around with the 
dst_blocklist settings, but that caused even more trouble because Kamailio 
started blocking requests to peers that have only one server in the record 
having a short hickup. 


Thanks in advance for every input, as this is causing trouble every time we run 
into such a situation.
 
Regards,
Sebastian
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