[Asterisk-Users] Broken DNS makes Asterisk whacky!

[Alastair Maw]

On 09/01/04 23:18, Matt Lawson wrote:
> When DNS (or outside connection to the network, not sure which) is 
> broken and you have "register=>" lines in iax.conf, Asterisk gets whacky.
>
> [...]
>
> Does this sound similar to anyone else's experience?  Anyone else care 
> to verfiy?  Our Asterisk version is pretty close to CVS, maybe a few 
> weeks out but I didn't see any bugs listed that seemed to address this.

Yes, it does. I noticed this last week. When this happens, Asterisk 
forks lots of threads (hundreds over time), none of which die. This puts 
very high load on the box if the outage in DNS happens for a while.

Alastair