[asterisk-users] AGI perl script set timeout within script?

[Steve Edwards]

>>>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:27 PM, JR Richardson
>> <jmr.richardson at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> problem I'm running into is if the DNS server is not responding, the 
>>>>> script hangs and waits for 30 seconds before returning to the 
>>>>> Asterisk dialplan. ?I would like a timeout of 1 second, then return.

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, JR Richardson wrote:

> I tried the perl script eval, alarm, $SIG{ALRM} functions till I was 
> blue in the face from cussing at the screen. It does not appear that the 
> perl script is doing the DNS query, otherwise the eval alarm would 
> timeout and pass control back to asterisk.  Another indication is that 
> '#define MAX_AGI_CONNECT 2000' in res_agi is not being invoked because 
> the timeout is around 30 seconds.  Is that 30 second timeout built into 
> Asterisk?  Can I put an absolute timeout on an agi script from the 
> dialplan prior to calling the agi application?  Maybe I'll fork a macro 
> with a timeout, yea, that's it, let start forking, something new to cuss 
> at.

What about:

1) Fixing the slow responding DNS server?

2) Tweaking /etc/resolv.conf options?

3) Setting up a caching name server on your Asterisk host?

4) Adding the AGI server host name and IP address to /etc/hosts?

5) Using the IP address of the AGI server in your dialplan?

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