[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk became berserk when Internet connectionis down and can't register to SIP server.

[Eric Wieling]

Andre Normandin wrote:

> The same thing happened to me a few days ago..  Truthfully, I thought it was
> just me, and a coincidence..  My DSL line went down, and astertisk refused
> to work until it came back up...
> 
> I couldn't even dial out, nor would it receive calls on my 3 analog (X101P
> card) lines!!!!
> 
> I don't know about anyone else, but if I decide to offer * to my clients,
> and tell them that your internal phones will go down if your internet blips,
> I think I'll be thrown out and the door locked behind me..  What's more, I
> don't feel that any programming should be needed on my end to have asterisk
> just silently mark any connection as unreachable just as it does now to sip
> clients when they do not register or respond to a qualify=yes directive..
> 
> Linux doesn't hang if it cannot resolve a dns, why should it make * go
> crazy?

There is an attempted fix in CVS-HEAD (dnsmgr?).  It's a known problem.

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