[asterisk-users] Asterisk temporary hangs when no internet connection

Eric Wieling eric at fnords.org
Fri Apr 11 13:34:39 CDT 2008


This is a very common issue with Asterisk.  There is no good fix, but if 
you make sure ALL IP addresses of the server are listed in /etc/hosts on 
the server it may help.


Marius Muja wrote:
> It is using a local DNS server.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Steven Kurylo <steven.kurylo at aviawest.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Marius Muja wrote:
>>> My guess is that the asterisk server tries resolving the names of the
>>> SIP providers when it tries to re-register to them and because there
>>> is no internet connectivity it hangs there for a while. However in
>>> that time all the local calls to the asterisk server stop working.
>> Try using a local DNS server.  Sounds like its waiting on DNS lookups...
>>
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