Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-10 Thread Eric "ManxPower" Wieling
The external DNS server would immediately return with a not found message. Without internet access you'll have to wait for the timeouts, etc. Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Asterisk gets very upset if it can't lookup the host name associated >> with every IP on the system, normally it would use DNS

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Asterisk gets very upset if it can't lookup the host name associated >with every IP on the system, normally it would use DNS to do this, but >since your Internet connection was down it could not do that. So to clarify, it not only needs to resolve FQDN's, but do reverse lookups on ip's as well? I

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-10 Thread Eric "ManxPower" Wieling
Asterisk gets very upset if it can't lookup the host name associated with every IP on the system, normally it would use DNS to do this, but since your Internet connection was down it could not do that. You should look at /etc/hosts on the Asterisk machine and make sure that each IP address of

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>They can now turn off their internet connection and everything works fine. >We left the internet down for 30mins. >I am worried that if the cache time on the DNS server runs out the problem >may come back, but this is set to 6 hours. > >Hope this helps, and if anyone can shed some more light on th

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Col Ferguson
- Original Message - From: "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup > >I've seen

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread OCG Technical Support
: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:32:29 -0400, Matt Watson wrote: >On June 9, 2008 07:49:13 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of >> >phones? >>

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Darrick Hartman (lists)
Michael Graves wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:32:29 -0400, Matt Watson wrote: > >> On June 9, 2008 07:49:13 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote: What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of phones? >>> Michael/Darryl, >>> I do have a local asterisk box, which is why I am

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Graves
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:32:29 -0400, Matt Watson wrote: >On June 9, 2008 07:49:13 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of >> >phones? >> >> Michael/Darryl, >> I do have a local asterisk box, which is why I am baffled. I am new to >> Aste

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Alexander Lopez
ist - Non-Commercial Discussion' > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup > > >I've seen this behaviour from Asterisk as well... while I can't say I > have > >tracked it down and verified this... I've seen other talks about how > Aster

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've seen this behaviour from Asterisk as well... while I can't say I have >tracked it down and verified this... I've seen other talks about how Asterisk >gets rather unhappy when it can't preform DNS queries. I suspect that may be >your problem. Might want to check the archives for other issue

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>in this whole thread are we missing a subtle difference? that being the >difference between inter vs. intra office. when your wan connectivity drops >I'd expect your INTERoffice (from one office to another) calls to fail. >INTRAoffice (within the same office) calls should >work though. > >Er

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Watson
On June 9, 2008 07:49:13 pm Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of > >phones? > > Michael/Darryl, > I do have a local asterisk box, which is why I am baffled. I am new to > Asterisk and there is lots to learn, but my config is pretty basic

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Eric Fort
in this whole thread are we missing a subtle difference? that being the difference between inter vs. intra office. when your wan connectivity drops I'd expect your INTERoffice (from one office to another) calls to fail. INTRAoffice (within the same office) calls should work though. Eric On Mon,

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What type of PBX hardware do you have on-site? Also what make/models of >phones? Michael/Darryl, I do have a local asterisk box, which is why I am baffled. I am new to Asterisk and there is lots to learn, but my config is pretty basic, my sip.conf simply has the phones and single sip provider c

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Graves
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:50 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>The exact question pose I must leave for others to answer. >> >>However, I recently completed a project that overcomes the situation >>you describe. I installed a cellular gateway giving me a wireless >>trunk. If I lose IP connectivity

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The exact question pose I must leave for others to answer. > >However, I recently completed a project that overcomes the situation >you describe. I installed a cellular gateway giving me a wireless >trunk. If I lose IP connectivity I can route calls out through my cell >carrier. Works really well.

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Darryl Dunkin
wanted to do. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 15:52 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup We had an outage from our ISP this afternoon that cut

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Graves
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:51:32 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >We had an outage from our ISP this afternoon that cut prevented us from >connecting >to our SIP provider (someone physically cut a line downstream). All our phones >inside >the office stopped working as well? Why is that, and how can I

[asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
We had an outage from our ISP this afternoon that cut prevented us from connecting to our SIP provider (someone physically cut a line downstream). All our phones inside the office stopped working as well? Why is that, and how can I set this up so phones can still dial each other inside the offic