[Asterisk-Users] Register times out on internet outage

[brett at websmyths.com]

On 9/30/2005, "Chris Mason (Lists)" <lists at masonc.com> wrote:

> I am using AstLinux with
> Asterisk CVS-HEAD-01/10/05-02:11:15-AstLinux built by root at ls on a i686
> running Linux
>
> On this box I am registered to two different providers for long distance
> and international. If there is an internet outage of more than a few
> minutes, I'm not sure how long it takes to make this happen, the
> registration times out and when internet comes back the pbx never
> re-registers and consequently Asterisk has to be reset. As there is
> no-one there that can access the PBX it means the PBX has to be power
> cycled, not an optimal solution.
> Has anyone seen this problem, is it a CVS-HEAD problem?

Chris - just do a reload.  For my SIP stuff it comes back with a warning
and I don't think it says anything for IAX.

It times out after the 10th try (I think) and you should get notices in
message file.

Reload has always done it for me.

Brett