[Asterisk-Users] brittle IAX connections ?

2006-05-03 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hello,

I have several asterisk 1.2.7.1 servers connected through iax2 and often 
the local asterisk would no longer see the remote one, even thought the 
link is high quality and the ping is perfect.

Is there some issues to take into account about IAX2 connections? 

Is asterisk's DNS resolution too fragile and should I use raw IP's in my 
configs?

Thanks for any help (I'm in hot water with this issue, client expects 
_quick_ improvement of call quality)
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] brittle IAX connections ?

2006-05-03 Thread Rich Adamson


I have several asterisk 1.2.7.1 servers connected through iax2 and often 
the local asterisk would no longer see the remote one, even thought the 
link is high quality and the ping is perfect.


Is there some issues to take into account about IAX2 connections? 

Is asterisk's DNS resolution too fragile and should I use raw IP's in my 
configs?


The DNS resolution is somewhat fragile and/or incomplete as has been 
stated previously on the list. Most notably, if asterisk cannot get dns 
resolution the system basically hangs. The workaround is to establish a 
dns caching server on the * box. Second, asterisk code does not properly 
handle dns records that contain more then one IP address; it uses only 
the first entry found within the dns response.


Using hard coded IP addresses is one way to address the issue if that 
works for you.


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