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

[Olle E Johansson]

31 maj 2011 kl. 14.49 skrev Benny Amorsen:

> Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at sunfone.com> writes:
> 
>> Hasn't anyone managed to solve this with something better than a
>> caching DNS server, which seems to only last a short while?  What
>> exactly is going on that is failing?
> 
> If your recursive DNS server returns errors quickly rather than actually
> trying to look up the names, Asterisk works fine.
> 
> It is not a particularly nice workaround, but it does work... As long as
> Asterisk does not actually NEED the DNS information, but that can be
> most worked around with static configuration of IP addresses in sip.conf.
> 

Longterm we should really integrate an Asynchronus DNS library, like C-Ares.

I've been wanting to do that for years.

/O