[asterisk-users] No Internet, no asterisk

[Захаров Антон]

Could 'dnsmgr' help?

On 18.04.2011 14:30, A J Stiles wrote:
> 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.
>