[asterisk-users] How can I stop lost DNS from killing Asterisk?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Use IP addresses instead of hostnames in your Asterisk config.  It 
sucks, but that is the only way I know of.

Eric Bishop wrote:
> When we loose Internet access (DNS) Asterisk basically halts until Internet
> comes up even for internal registrations and calls. We are even running a
> caching DNS server on the Asterisk box but this does not seem to help. Any
> suggestions?