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Dia
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Dia
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RE: PBxes not working, again |
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I understand that a lot of people are mad about this failure, including me, but since the affected DNS servers are in operation again, it is preferable to use FQDNs instead of IPs.
When these IPs change, and they will, albeit infrequently, all these IP phones and ATAs will have to be re-provisioned again.
If you are going to implement a manual procedure, to provision the SIP UAs with IPs, one alternative would be to run a basic DNS server at home or the office, and manually maintain that list. This way changes will happen at one place and all phones will be getting their DNS info from the internal DNS. The second place DNS can be the Internet provider's DNS, or a third party's DNS like OpenDNS.
This solution would be preferable, over using the IPs, and provides you with an extra layer of protection over DNS failure for any frequently used service and website you use. The DNS server doesn't need to be fancy, any Win2K or XP can do this, as well as any MacOS X or Linux variant.
When there is a will, there is a way.
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i-p
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10.10.2009 03:41 |
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