[asterisk-dev] Fixing Asterisk DNS - bug 9152, asynchronous DNS, etc

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi!

(open)ser also has similar problems to due lack of asynch DNS - but at 
least they allow to configure DNS timeouts. Thus, a workaround is 
setting low timeout values. I do not know if Asterisk supports this - 
but surely will be easier to implement than asynch DNS.

regards
klaus

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 15:13 -0400, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
>>>   It appears that a good start would be making Asterisk DNS resolution
>>> asynchronous inside of dns.c and making dns manager work with
>>> chan_sip.  Or maybe not.  Does anyone with more clue have any better
>>> ideas?
>> Outside of making every DNS lookup in Asterisk asynchronous, your best
>> bet would be to run BIND as a caching-only nameserver on the Asterisk
>> box.  Change the resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1.  If you need to run
>> DNS queries through your ISP's nameservers you can tell BIND to forward
>> all queries through those nameservers.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> 
> Jeff,
> 
>   I have used that "solution" with mixed results in the past (usually
> using dnsmasq).  The problem is that no good DNS Cache will cache a
> result longer than the TTL on the record so your "success" using this
> solution will depend more on the TTL than anything else...
> 
>   I'd like to fix the real problem in Asterisk and not depend on any
> external hacks.  This includes:
> 
> - DNS Caches
> - Hosts files
> - etc
>