[asterisk-users] No Internet, no asterisk

[A J Stiles]

On Monday 18 Apr 2011, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> As soon as the Internet connection goes down, phones
> stop working. I want to be able to use pstn, isdn and the gsm gateway
> even if the Internet connection goes down, how can I achieve it?

You most probably are using a nameserver somewhere else on the Internet; and 
when Asterisk can't see the nameserver, everything stops working.

The solution is to run your own nameserver.  Install bind  (probably easier 
from your distro's package repository than from source, since the former will 
include some sane config)  on the Asterisk box, and reconfigure networking so 
as only to use 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver.

-- 
AJS

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