[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[Matt]

>
> > At least in 1.2.6 and 7 if some of your SIP peers were down (that you
> > registered with).. and by down I mean their DNS entries didn't
> > exist...(no DNS resolution for them for whatever reason), when you
> > started Asterisk it would start but not give you sip or zap command
> > options until it finished timing out all of your SIP peers!!!!
>
> Asterisk does not have a non-blocking DNS resolver. This means that when
> a DNS lookup is in progress it block until finished. If your DNS servers
> are down this will make Asterisk go funky and cause it to hang while the
> DNS lookup times out.



Ok this is fine.. I can accept problems if MY DNS servers are down.
However, in the case I spoke of.. we were doing an early morning upgrade and
for whatever reason a company we were using for 800 origination had all of
their servers (8 I believe) out of DNS at that moment.. I never did find out
what happened... so in this case another companies problem caused our server
to hang.... to me that's kind of a bug... and a problem... but anyway...
this thread has gotten OT :)


Have you looked and seen how many bugs were fixed? I count 33 changes
> between 1.2.15 and 1.2.16, and that was within the oldest currently
> maintained branch with 1.2.15 being released less then a month ago.
>
> I also count 350 changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 with 1.4.0 being
> released 2 and a half months ago.



EXACTLY MY POINT!!!   There shouldn't be that many bugs.   Look at QMail for
an example of ONE PERSON who is writing software that is secure and bug free
as well as free and open source.
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