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Ekiga needs SRV records

I’ve been playing around with Trixbox (a VOIP PABX) and Ekiga (a VOIP soft phone). It worked (mostly), but Ekiga was taking forever to cause the other phone to ring. A little packet sniffing showed that Ekiga needs an SRV DNS record to help it find the SIP server. Since I’m running DNSMasq (a combined DNS/DHCP service) I just needed to add:

srv-host=_sip._udp.server.domain,server FQDN, 5060

…to my /etc/dnsmasq file, and it starts working in real time. I imagine if you were using a hardware IP Phone (Grandstream, etc) you’d have the same problem.

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