Asterisk doesn't start properly at system startup. DNS lookup fails.

Posted by leiflundgren on Super User See other posts from Super User or by leiflundgren
Published on 2010-04-07T21:29:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 21:33 UTC
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When I start my Ubuntu system it attempts two DNS lookups. One to find out what my internet-routers external ip is. And one to find the IP of my PSTN-SIP-provider.

Both fails.

[Apr  7 22:14:54] WARNING[1675] chan_sip.c: Invalid address for externhost keyword: sip.mydomain.com   
...   
[Apr  7 22:14:54] WARNING[1675] acl.c: Unable to lookup 'sip.myprovider.com'

And since the DNS fails it cannot register properly a cannot make outgoing or incoming calls.

If I later, after bootup, restart asterisk everything works excelent.

Any idea how I should setup things so that either:

  1. Delay Asterisk startup so that DNS is up and healthy first.

  2. Somehow get Asterisk to re-try the DNS thing later.

Regards Leif

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