[asterisk-users] Why does it take at least 4 flipping days before asterisk tries to resolve a provider?

[Remco Barendse]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andreas Sikkema wrote:

> Remco,
> 
> > Asterisk starts before the internet connection is up and dns 
> > is working.
> 
> <knip>
> 
> > And then people say nightly asterisk restarts are not a good idea....
> 
> 
> Why is your asterisk startup script running before networking has been 
> setup? Asterisk has the same networking dependencies as apache, so I 
> start it around the same time using the same priority as apache and as 
> far as I know networking should work at that time or not at all, not 
> somewhere in between.

It is not, asterisk is correctly started after networking services, 
however it seems that when the box is booting the dns is replying just a 
split second too late for the taste of asterisk and it seems that asterisk 
then marks the provider as unavailable.

* should never wait that long, the 'load' on the box to resolve maybe a 
handful of domains is nothing, even if you would be running a Pentium 1 
box, and this should not be any reason not to try again every few minutes 
or so.


 
> pebkac?

If your view is broad enough all computer / it related trouble could be 
traced back to that :)