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

[Thomas Kenyon]

Remco Barendse wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
I was under the impression that it only contacted the hosts if it was 
registering with them, then it would wait until the value passed in 
registertimeout (sip.conf) and retry again after that time (if it failed).

In practise here (and at work) if the machine has problems contacting 
registration hosts, anyx sip clients connected to the server (even 
locally) will not register and any fixed sip peer -> user pairs that 
don't require registration will also not work until it can contact the 
host again.

I doubt this is what's supposed to happen, but that's what happens with 
me (1.2.12.1 and 1.4b2).