[asterisk-users] asterisk fails when DNS or internet fails

[Eric Wieling]

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> Hans Witvliet
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:57 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk fails when DNS or
> internet fails
>
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:29 -0400, Eric Wieling wrote:
> > As far as I can tell it is trying to do a reverse lookup on
> the IPs configured on the system.  With the internet down,
> does the command "host 10.10.10.1" (or whatever IPs you have
> on the system) take a while to come back?  Unless you can do
> a reverse lookup of all the IPs on the system don't expect
> Asterisk to be able to.   If your /etc/hosts is set up
> correct, you should be able to look up any IP configured on
> any interface on the system without delay.
> >
> > I'm sure there are other places Asterisk tries to do DNS
> lookups, but the above info has solved this issue for me in the past.
> >
>
> I'm not sure if that's all is true.
> Sure, if you add a line in /etc/hosts, that works for most
> applications,
> as not all commands follow /etc/resolv.conf....
>
> i just tried, adding a line to /etc/hosts.
> ping hostname works, but host hostname fails, just as host ip-address.
> So even when you only put ip-addresses (brrr) into your config files,
> the reversed-lookup will still spoil the party.

Check /etc/host.conf and make sure "hosts" is before "bind".