[asterisk-users] No retry after DNS failure

[James Harper]

> James Harper wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure that it was Asterisk? Did you try an nslookup after the
> > network came up while Asterisk wasn't working? How long did you
leave it
> > before taking matters into your own hands?
> 
> Fairly sure. I didn't realize there was a problem until about 6 hours
> after the power outage. Local calls go out via the PSTN, so I didn't
> notice the problem until I tried to make a long distance call. It took
a
> few minutes to diagnose the problem. It was when I did a "sip show
> peers" and noticed it was missing my outbound voip providers that I
> realized there was a problem. A "sip reload" immediately brought them
> back.

6 hours is beyond what all but the most brokenest of caches would do, so
it almost certainly isn't that. Sounds more like Asterisk has an
internal broken cache somewhere.

James