Re: [asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-13 Thread jg
Throwing in my my 2cents, I prefer dnsmasq, which is even lighter and Asterisk doesn't mind. As far as maintenance (firmware updates of phones, etc) goes, dnsmasq also offers TFTP and DHCP functionality. If nothing like that is running on a customer site, this is quite handy. Not that you can'

Re: [asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-13 Thread A J Stiles
On Wednesday 13 November 2013, Jeremy Kister wrote: > On 11/12/2013 8:46 PM, Duncan Turnbull wrote: > > Any chance DNS is dying about the same time the problem occurs > > good idea, but I don't use DNS anywhere in Asterisk. well, except for > sip.conf:externhost. it's all IP addresses. That doe

Re: [asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-12 Thread Jeremy Kister
On 11/12/2013 8:46 PM, Duncan Turnbull wrote: Any chance DNS is dying about the same time the problem occurs good idea, but I don't use DNS anywhere in Asterisk. well, except for sip.conf:externhost. it's all IP addresses. -- ___

Re: [asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-12 Thread Duncan Turnbull
Any chance DNS is dying about the same time the problem occurs I get this occasionally every 6-12 months and usually because DNS got messed up and then something didn’t fall back into place when it recovered - networking looks okay on the machine but asterisk is stuck. I have been meaning to fo

Re: [asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-12 Thread Jeremy Kister
On 11/12/2013 7:37 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote: any ideas how we can find out what's upset ? more info: when I create a /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/callfile (with multiple SIP/xxx&SIP/yyy), the extensions ring. but when i answer with the handset the call does not connect and the other extensio

[asterisk-users] Recurring SIP problem with asterisk 11.6 & 11.7

2013-11-12 Thread Jeremy Kister
I have regularly (once a week, once per few hundred calls?) been having problems with Asterisk's SIP stack not responding to packets from any of my registered devices. In the past, I could not tolerate the outage, so i would restart asterisk to make things happy. My Asterisk server is current