[asterisk-users] Asterisk temporary hangs when no internet connection

[Steven Kurylo]

Marius Muja wrote:
> My guess is that the asterisk server tries resolving the names of the 
> SIP providers when it tries to re-register to them and because there 
> is no internet connectivity it hangs there for a while. However in 
> that time all the local calls to the asterisk server stop working.
Try using a local DNS server.  Sounds like its waiting on DNS lookups...