[Asterisk-Users] DNS Server Failure wreaks havoc

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Brian Capouch wrote:
> I don't think this is a new issue--I've seen it talked about on the list 
> before.  I don't know if I've ever seen anyone post a fix.
> 
> My DNS server went out last night in a horrendous storm when an upstream 
> link went down.  The madness is that the behavior of the whole server, 
> including the part that's handling my POTS lines, gets wigged out on a 
> DNS failure, making the whole system unusable.  I have two questions; 
> being able to solve either would be wonderful:

Asterisk is horrible at handleing DNS failures.  Don't use DNS with 
Asterisk.