[Users] Dispatcher module - Does it actually work?

[Douglas Garstang]

Andy, no. No one has suggested using the lcr module, and I wasn't even aware of it until you mentioned it just now. I took a look at the module docs, they're way beyond my current understanding. it. I'll have to do some reading. Does it allow you to try another route when one is not responding?
 
Doug.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Andreas Granig [mailto:andreas.granig at inode.info] 
	Sent: Thu 11/24/2005 2:25 PM 
	To: Douglas Garstang 
	Cc: users at openser.org 
	Subject: Re: [Users] Dispatcher module - Does it actually work?
	
	

	Douglas Garstang wrote:
	> Hashing over call-id may work to some degree, and I'll investigate it more, but hashing over the From: means that the same caller will always get the same Asterisk box, and your redundancy goes down the toilet.
	> 
	> Actually I guess it's down the toilet anyway. The bottom line seems to be that it doesn't matter whether you use the dispatcher or SRV records to distribute load, OpenSER will never try to connect to anything else on failure and at least for us, that makes it use in a production system, not an option.
	
	I didn't follow the whole thread, so maybe this has been suggested
	before, but have you ever thought about using the lcr module for load
	balancing? In combination with failure routes for failover this works
	very well for me.
	
	Andy