> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Hans Witvliet > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 5:57 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk fails when DNS or > internet fails > > 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.
Check /etc/host.conf and make sure "hosts" is before "bind". -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
