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

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Thomas Kenyon wrote:
> 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).

This is a known issue.  See the mailing list archives.  Make sure 
asterisk does not try to resolve using DNS.