[asterisk-users] Asterisk eventually fails when connection dies

[Philipp Kempgen]

Joseph L. Casale schrieb:
> I have a single server running asterisk 1.6.0.8 with a few sip voip providers
> and a tdm card for redundancy. It has a caching name server and the sip providers
> are hard coded in the hosts file.
> 
> When the internet connection dies, it fails over to the dahdi channel as it
> should, but slowly the sip phones loose registration and the incoming dahdi
> channel can still answer the incoming call, but it doesn't pass it off the
> mailbox, it just says the "person at extension... is not available"? There
> is a custom recording setup that otherwise works?
> 
> What does a guy got to do to keep asterisk up when the net connection fails?
> This is becoming a show stopper :(

A persistent local DNS cache such as pdnsd[1] or djbdns[2] could help.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdnsd
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns

    Philipp Kempgen
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