[asterisk-users] DNS reload on trunks for outgoing calls

[Steve Howes]

On 4 Jan 2010, at 08:34, Remco Barendse wrote:

> Is there any fix or workaround for the DNS problem (old standing bug  
> that
> when the box starts and domain names do not resolve quickly enough  
> from
> DNS then asterisk stops using the outgoing trunks.
>
> I read on the list before that it is considered a huge and  
> unacceptable
> load for asterisk servers to try and resolve the domain names again
> after some time but it is rather annoying. I don't know about
> resources of other people but on my boxes i have some cpu cycles that
> could be used for that :)
>
> I now do nightly restarts of asterisk but it still means that at  
> least for
> one day calls are flowing through expensive PSTN.
>
> If anybody knows of a workaround, would be most welcome

Install a resolver locally.