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

[Rich Adamson]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> 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?

Using IP addresses only does not fix the problem as the asterisk system 
does not know who he is. Need to define him in /etc/hosts as well, then 
it works just fine.