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350-801 · Question #39

An engineer is designing a high availability and failover solution for two Cisco Unified Border Element routers. The first router (cube 1.abc.com) takes 60% of the calls and the second router (cube2…

The correct answer is A. _sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 60 cube1.abc.com B. _sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 40 cube2.abc.com. This question requires identifying the correct SRV record syntax to achieve a load-balanced solution between two Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) routers with specified weight distribution for SIP over UDP.

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Question

An engineer is designing a high availability and failover solution for two Cisco Unified Border Element routers. The first router (cube 1.abc.com) takes 60% of the calls and the second router (cube2 abc.com) takes 40% of the calls. Assume all DNS A records have been created. Which two SRV records are needed for a load balanced solution? (Choose two.)

Options

  • A_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 60 cube1.abc.com
  • B_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 40 cube2.abc.com
  • C_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 60 1 cube1abc.com
  • D_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 2 60 cube1.abc.com
  • E_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 3 60 cube2.abc.com

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • A
    83% (30)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    8% (3)
  • E
    3% (1)

Why each option

This question requires identifying the correct SRV record syntax to achieve a load-balanced solution between two Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) routers with specified weight distribution for SIP over UDP.

A_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 60 cube1.abc.comCorrect

The SRV record format is _service._proto.name TTL class SRV priority weight port target. For cube1.abc.com taking 60% of calls, the correct SRV record is _sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 60 cube1.abc.com. Here, '1' is the priority (lower is preferred), and '60' is the weight, correctly assigning 60% of traffic.

B_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 40 cube2.abc.comCorrect

Similarly, for cube2.abc.com taking 40% of calls, the correct SRV record is _sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 1 40 cube2.abc.com. Both records have the same priority '1' to allow load balancing, and '40' is the weight, ensuring 40% of traffic is directed here.

C_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 60 1 cube1abc.com

This choice has the priority and weight fields swapped, which is incorrect for SRV record syntax.

D_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 2 60 cube1.abc.com

While the priority and weight are in the correct positions, this option only provides one part of the load-balancing pair, and another record is needed to complete the 60/40 split.

E_sip_udp.abc.com 60 IN SRV 3 60 cube2.abc.com

This choice has the correct syntax for priority and weight, but assigns a weight of 60 to cube2, which contradicts the problem statement of 40% for cube2.

Concept tested: DNS SRV record configuration for SIP load balancing

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/srnd/collab12/collab12/srnd_edge.html

Topics

#DNS SRV records#SIP load balancing#Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)#High Availability

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