SIP in higher education

[Christian Schlatter <>]

Alan Crosswell wrote:
> The cookbook shows
>
> _sips._tcp.bigu.edu.  43200 IN SRV 0 0 5060  sipserver1.bigu.edu.
>
> Other examples I've seen use:
>
> _sip._tls.bigu.edu.  43200 IN SRV 0 0 5060  sipserver1.bigu.edu.
>
> Should I be using both?

RFC 3263 (Locating SIP Servers) says:

[SRV] Queries are done using the service identifier "_sip" for SIP URIs 
and "_sips" for SIPS URIs.

So following the standards would mean to use _sips._tcp.bigu.edu, though 
I don't know if all SIPS capable clients support that.

Christian

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