[asterisk-users] No Internet, no asterisk

[Dave Cotton]

On 18/04/11 12:16, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Hi,
> this is an old outstanding problem, unfortunately I don't remember how
> to walkaround it. I use asterisk 1.8.3 and I have a public IP in my
> network interface. 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?
>


Use dnsmasq which is a caching name server and can be set up simpler 
than bind. dnsmasq can make use of /etc/hosts to get local details. I 
also include the name and ip of my sip provider in etc/hosts.

Dave Cotton