[Users] Delayed signalling?

Jiri Kuthan jiri at iptel.org
Wed Dec 20 18:59:25 CET 2006


At 14:38 15/12/2006, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>Jiri Kuthan wrote:
>>At 16:03 14/12/2006, samuel wrote:
>>>It might be due to a DNS query....whenver a request has to be
>>>forwarded to a domain, openSER makes a DNS query to resolv the IP.
>>>During this operation, the child processing the request will not
>>>answer to further incoming messages.
>>Hard to say without more input what the cause may be. Indeed common
>>suspects are DNS (or any other blocking operation, such as dataabse)
>>or timers, but again it is hard to say without more input.
>
>>If it is DNS or TCP-based blocking, it may be worthwhile trying genuine SER/ottendorf which is having IP blacklisting and DNS cachine in there -- this is indeed something which has been pressing us for a while.
>
>How about the TTL in ser's cache? Does it obey the TTL in the DNS responses? If yes, then there is no beneift over using a "near" resolving bind.

How far it obeys is configurable, dns-ttl is used as default. Mainly though
it supports multiple destinations for a DNS name (reliability impact; serial
forking) and it is combined with blacklisting, i.e., the IP adresses which
prove unavailable are not used.

see
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ser/sip_router/doc/dns.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ser/sip_router/doc/dst_blacklist.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup


-jiri



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