I agree with Daniel here. Within the platforms we rarely use DNS as most systems are fixed (not moving around, have a permanent IP address) and we handle failover and load balancing using solutions like the Kamailio dispatcher.
>From the client side, like softphones or desktop phones, I personally use a >lot of DNS to find the first hop SIP server. This way I can manage the clients, control load balancing, provider failover and make sure they always reach the service. Cheers, /O > On 22 Aug 2023, at 21:14, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > DNS-based routing is not very common in telecommunications, most of the > interconnects being done based on IP routing and IP-trusted rules. > Because DNS is usually a blocking operation that involves network > communication (therefore can introduce delays), many of the dns features > are turned off by default. When one has to build a system that relies > significantly on DNS-based routing, those features can be turned on via > config. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > On 22.08.23 17:07, Silvan Nagl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know the reason for having "off" as default value for >> use_dns_failover. >> https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/issues/3547 >> >> Greetings, >> Silvan >> > -- > Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- www.asipto.com > www.twitter.com/miconda -- www.linkedin.com/in/miconda > Kamailio World Conference - www.kamailioworld.com > > __________________________________________________________ > Kamailio - Users Mailing List - Non Commercial Discussions > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Important: keep the mailing list in the recipients, do not reply only to the > sender! > Edit mailing list options or unsubscribe: __________________________________________________________ Kamailio - Users Mailing List - Non Commercial Discussions To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Important: keep the mailing list in the recipients, do not reply only to the sender! Edit mailing list options or unsubscribe:
