Re: [asterisk-users] should trixbox system hang when ISP drops connection?

2010-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Warren Selby wrote: > Try installing a local caching nameserver on the same box that runs > asterisk, and have that handle DNS queries for you.  I remember at > one point that trixbox would hang if you had any SIP trunks > configured and you lost internet connectivity, but a c

Re: [asterisk-users] should trixbox system hang when ISP drops connection?

2010-09-24 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
Is your ISP doing DNS resolutions for you? If yes, then I also think it has something to do with the DNS queries which hangs asterisk. But it should not bring the server down. On CentOS, caching name server should be very easy to install by doing: yum install caching-nameserver I don't remember

Re: [asterisk-users] should trixbox system hang when ISP drops connection?

2010-09-24 Thread Warren Selby
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so, is there an easy fix for this? if the ISP goes down, does that > necessarily mean that trixbox has to go down as well? or should i be > asking this question on a trixbox-specific list? thanks. > > rday > > Try installing a local

[asterisk-users] should trixbox system hang when ISP drops connection?

2010-09-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
NEWBIE alert: i'm a linux person, not an asterisk person so i'm certainly capable of handling any linux-flavoured solution you can suggest. here's a note i got from a local company i know (some proper names removed): = start = Now and again our ISP goes down and when it does give us