[asterisk-users] asterisk fails when DNS or internet fails

[nhadie ramos]

I have setup a reverse dns for my local subnet and it seems to have resolved
the issue, i was able to make calls even when my asterisk box is not
connected to the net. thanks for all your help!

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Hans Witvliet <hwit at a-domani.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:29 -0400, Eric Wieling wrote:
> > As far as I can tell it is trying to do a reverse lookup on the IPs
> configured on the system.  With the internet down, does the command "host
> 10.10.10.1" (or whatever IPs you have on the system) take a while to come
> back?  Unless you can do a reverse lookup of all the IPs on the system don't
> expect Asterisk to be able to.   If your /etc/hosts is set up correct, you
> should be able to look up any IP configured on any interface on the system
> without delay.
> >
> > I'm sure there are other places Asterisk tries to do DNS lookups, but the
> above info has solved this issue for me in the past.
> >
>
> I'm not sure if that's all is true.
> Sure, if you add a line in /etc/hosts, that works for most applications,
> as not all commands follow /etc/resolv.conf....
>
> i just tried, adding a line to /etc/hosts.
> ping hostname works, but host hostname fails, just as host ip-address.
> So even when you only put ip-addresses (brrr) into your config files,
> the reversed-lookup will still spoil the party.
>
>
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