[Serusers] alias option in ser.cfg and SVR in DNS

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 01:25 AM 10/14/2003, Ajeet wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I added 
>alias=sip.ur_net.lab
>in my ser.cfg file and now i can register register with a name like
>username at sip.ur_net.lab, but previously i was only able to register with
>the IP address like username at 10.3.10.5
>
>Now i have few questions,
>1.
>before adding alias in ser.cfg file. i already had RR in my DNS for my
>sip server like
>sip.ur_net.lab. ........ 10.3.0.1
>and when i was starting sip server then i can see in the log messeges
>that it says that listens on this 10.3.0.1 ipaddress and then alias
>sip.ur_net.lab is mentioned 
>and i also can resolv sip.ur_net.lab to 10.3.0.1 through dig command.
>So why it didn't worked before?

because SER did not know about the alias. How could it?


>2. I read about SVR records, but i dont have those in my DNS and still my
>sip server is working correctly and now i also can register like
>username at sip.ur_net.lab.... so in what situation this SVR records comes
>into action?

For example if you wished redundant servers refered to by DNS/SRV maps.

-jiri