[LINK] Linkers using Asterisk

[Richard Chirgwin]

Avi Miller wrote:
>
> On 08/06/2007, at 4:09 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>
>> The problem is this: if something goes wrong with the Internet 
>> connection, I lose the whole system - Asterisk gets upset at not 
>> being able to register with its VoIP services, and doesn't work 
>> properly with the PSTN line cards either.
>
> Asterisk (1.2) has a problem with DNS resolution: If it fails, it 
> never rechecks. The best thing to do is hard-code IP addresses for 
> your VoIP services, instead of using hostnames. This has resolved 
> similar issues for our Asterisk boxes in the past.
Avi,

Worked, thanks. Also thanks to Howard for the offer to look over the cfg 
files - the reason I didn't act on it is that things got kind of busy at 
the office and I didn't have time!

Cheers all,
Richard
>
> Though, I have to be honest and say that we don't use external VoIP 
> providers, but do have SIP/IAX2 links between our five Asterisk servers.
>
> cYa,
> Avi
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