Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > On 6/20/07, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I could understand if it couldn't register to an ITSP or similar. >> >> But, (I had this happen today) asterisk takes forever to start up and SIP >> phones can not register to it. >> DNS should not need to be used for anything in asterisk except registering >> to VOIP providers and maybe external SQL from the >> dialplan. >> >> If there are reverse lookups being done, I do not see the output of it. >> > > Steven, > > If you are using a hostname for an ITSP and DNS fails, it will take > FOREVER for the SIP channel driver to load/reload/do anything that > requires a DNS lookup. This will in some cases block the rest of > Asterisk but will certainly make anything that depends on SIP break - > until the DNS request finally fails. > > I have started a new thread on -dev about this...
I experienced this exact problem last night on my personal box. My sip provider went un-reachable (Teliax requires the use of hostnames). When that happened, I couldn't even call my local phone extensions. Everything SIP was locked hard until it finally timed out. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
