[asterisk-users] R: No Internet, no asterisk

[Matt Riddell]

On 20/04/11 1:58 AM, Mark Deneen wrote:
> 2011/4/19 Niccolò Belli<darkbasic4 at gmail.com>:
>> Il 18/04/2011 12:22, Alexandru Oniciuc ha scritto:
>>> Disable DNS lookups. Chan_sip crashes asterisk if you have that enabled and internet is offline.
>>
>> srvlookup = no didn't help.
>>
>> What about putting my provider's name in /etc/hosts?
>> Should it solve the problem?
>>
>> A caching nameserver is not a viable solution because I want it working
>> even after a month without internet access.
>
> Wouldn't a caching nameserver just return NXDOMAIN if it couldn't
> contact the authoritative server for that domain?

It should do - the problem (AFAIK) is that Asterisk is unable to contact 
the DNS server, not that it doesn't return a result it likes.

Therefore a caching nameserver (bind9 etc) should solve it.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
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