[asterisk-users] asterisk 1.2.12 lost phone registrations today... why?

[Dave Cotton]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:20 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> As a general rule, if you aren't already, you should have your Linux
> box running a local DNS server, to which everything in your net should
> be pointed, and that server *should have an authoritative zone for your
> local RFC 1918 network number, in both directions*.  If it does not, then
> those reverse lookups that many programs generate, in trying to log
> names for connections instead of numbers, will go to the outside world
> before they bounce...
> 
> or they'll time out when your uplink is dead.
> 
> This may be (part of) your problem.

Asterisk does not like the ADSL link dropping for an extended period,
even with a fully configured internal DNS server this will still
happens.

It's more likely directly linked with how asterisk deals with
registrations to external SIP/IAX servers it appears to sit there for
ever trying to do the registration, then when an internal phone tries to
re-register it can't, in the end all the phones go out of service one by
one according to their re-registration period. 

-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>