[asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

[OCG Technical Support]

Change the order of resolution (hosts first, then DNS) and add relevant
entries to your hosts table.  That makes asterisk happy w/o an internet
connection.

MD

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Graves
Sent: June 9, 2008 9:09 PM
To: Asterisk Users List
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:32:29 -0400, Matt Watson wrote:

>On June 9, 2008 07:49:13 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> >What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of
>> >phones?
>>
>> Michael/Darryl,
>> I do have a local asterisk box, which is why I am baffled. I am new to
>> Asterisk and there is lots to learn, but my config is pretty basic, my
>> sip.conf simply has the phones and single sip provider context in it. It
>> doesn't make sense that the voip provider going offline takes the whole
>> setup out with it. I am suspecting something else went south at the same
>> time.
>>
>> I have snom m3's and one Astra 480i.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> jlc
>>
>
>I've seen this behaviour from Asterisk as well... while I can't say I have
>tracked it down and verified this... I've seen other talks about how
Asterisk
>gets rather unhappy when it can't preform DNS queries.  I suspect that may
be
>your problem.   Might want to check the archives for other issues that
people
>have talked about DNS as a possible cause and see if there are any
>similarities.

Yes, this is very true. Asterisk gets backed up trying to deal with
lack of DNS.  I'd diable the SIP trunk then restart. Perhaps this would
permit internal calls to resume, as long as there are no attempts to
dial external numbers.

Michael
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