[asterisk-users] Asterisk very slow when internet down

[Steve Davies]

On 1/25/07, Peter Mitchell <petermitchell at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this issue with asterisk running like a dog when the
> internet is down ?  Internal calls, incoming ISDN calls etc all seem to be
> affected.  There is a local DNS server that is always available so I'm not
> sure why asterisk is so unresponsive.

How fast does the DNS server respond to queries made by the asterisk
box? Perhaps set up a trace somewhere to discover what queries are
being made and what/when the responses come back.

Cheers,
Steve