You can't use round robin DNS. Round robin DNS will cause every SIP packet to potentially go through a different static path, which will break things.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 5:27 AM > To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Connecting to a cluster of SIP servers > > > Although there maybe a better way, this would work: > > 1. Add the IP's into your sip.conf and set qualify=yes. > 2. Make your dialplan something like the following: > exten => _X.,1,Dial,SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > exten => _X.,2,Hangup > exten => _X.,102,Dial,SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > exten => _X.,103,Hangup > exten => _X.,203,Dial,SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > exten => _X.,204,Hangup > exten => _X.,304,Dial,SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > exten => _X.,305,Hangup > > This would make your failover work but certainly wouldn't > help with the load > balancing between the servers. If any cannot qualify or are > congested, they > will automatically failover to the next server. > > I believe most people use an SER proxy for this type of > application. It > seems to work well with the round robin type DNS. > > William > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Steve Hill > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 5:13 AM > To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Connecting to a cluster of SIP servers > > > My Asterisk server is connecting to "sip.plus.net", which resolves to > multiple IP addresses: > > sip.plus.net. 300 IN A 84.92.0.75 > sip.plus.net. 300 IN A 84.92.0.76 > sip.plus.net. 300 IN A 84.92.5.189 > sip.plus.net. 300 IN A 84.92.5.190 > > If one of these machines is down (i.e. it's not replying to the SIP > packets or it's sending back ICMP Port Unreachable), Asterisk > keeps trying > the same server. Shouldn't Asterisk move on to the next server > automatically in this case? It seems to only way to do this > at the moment > is to run the "reload" command, which causes it to do a DNS > lookup and it > may then pick one of the other servers. > > -- > > - Steve > xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users __________ NOD32 1.1447 (20060316) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
