[Asterisk-Users] Broken DNS makes Asterisk whacky!

[Steve]

On Monday 12 January 2004 04:13 am, Alastair Maw wrote:
> 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.

Did you try using IP addresses rather than names so that you don't need DNS?
Or entering the names into hosts?

> > [...]
> >
> > 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
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