Asterisk Unable To Do DNS Lookups

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I’ve noticed on several occasions that if Asterisk starts without a network connection, then even if the network connection is restored, DNS lookups fail.

After the connection is restored I can successfully do NSLOOKUPs from the command line, but the IAX2 registration attempts keep failing because Asterisk has a problem.

My questions are:

1. Is there a way to make Asterisk update (whatever is wrong) and resume successful DNS lookups?

2. Is there a way from the Asterisk CLI to detect when Asterisk enters this state of failed DNS lookups? (Other than tracking IAX2/SIP
registration failures)

One thought on - Asterisk Unable To Do DNS Lookups

  • There is dnsmgr which is configured in dnsmgr.conf that will periodically refresh. Older modules (chan_iax2 and chan_sip) don’t do lookups at use time, but instead do it once and store the result (unless they support dnsmgr and dnsmgr updates it).

    Not really.