[asterisk-users] Why asterisk down when inet server down?

[sean darcy]

On 06/18/2010 01:42 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
> Based on my somewhat similar experience a few times, when this happens,
> try to resolve an IP, to make sure there is a valid DNS server
> accessible to Asterisk. If not, either make asterisk a DNS as well, or
> remove any domain name entries from /etc/resolv file and replace them
> with the IP addresses of your DNS.
>
> Zeeshan A Zakaria
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>> On 2010-06-18 1:29 PM, "sean darcy" <seandarcy2 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:seandarcy2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/18/2010 12:57 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:
>> > ----- "sean darcy"<seandarcy2 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:seandarcy2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >> We h...
>>
>> Yes, it is a typo. The network is 10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0
>> <http://10.10.10.0/255.255.255.0>.
>>
>> sean
>>

If the internet server is down, there can't be a valid DNS server 
accessible to Asterisk. The asterisk server is a caching name server, 
but obviously won't be able to resolve addresses not in its cache.

Asterisk clearly doesn't need to resolve addresses to connect calls 
internally or over the T1. Is there any way to turn off its requirement 
for a DNS server? Or at least not fail catastrophically?

sean