asterisk users - Nov 2023 - Local calls not possible when Internet connection down

Marek Greško <marek.gresko at protonmail.com> writes:
> But I am not sure why this is happening. I have sip providers hostname
> in /etc/hosts file to prevent such situations. Should I reconfigure it
> not to use hosts file but rather some RPZ on DNS server? Does asterisk
> ignore hosts file? Or does it try to do some srv lookups? But in
> either case, why does this influence local calls? Local domain should
> really be resolvable.
You should run tcpdump on 53 and 5353 in multiple places and figure out
what it is doing, rather than asking us, who can only guess.

Hello,

well I do not ask those who only guess, but those who know what is asterisk
expected to do when internet connectivity goes down. I did not had a chance to
make internet not to work yet, since it is needed. But inspecting dns logs I
found out that there started to be resolving for _sip._tcp and _sip._udp records
for the provider's server. So apparently making hosts record make asterisk
happy when everything works, but when there is a communication problem then it
falls back to searching for srv records. At least it seems to be so for now.
Moreover I found out this old thread:

https://community.freepbx.org/t/asterisk-become-mad-when-a-dns-problem-occur/4755/10

So the problem seems to be still present. So if asterisk is not able to resolve
using it's dns resolver it breaks also local communication which is complete
non-sense.

I am thinking of two possible workarounds:

1. If thre is a possibility to convince asterisk not to fallback to searching
for srv records, it would be ideal. Is somebody aware of such options in pjsip?

2. If the first workaround is not feasible I can create rpz records for
provider's A and SRV records.

When I will be able to shutdown internet or at least outbound DNS, I will try to
make sure my findings are correct using tcpdump.

Thanks

Marek





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------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 at 0:46, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com>
wrote:

> Marek Greško marek.gresko at protonmail.com writes:
> 
> > But I am not sure why this is happening. I have sip providers hostname
> > in /etc/hosts file to prevent such situations. Should I reconfigure it
> > not to use hosts file but rather some RPZ on DNS server? Does asterisk
> > ignore hosts file? Or does it try to do some srv lookups? But in
> > either case, why does this influence local calls? Local domain should
> > really be resolvable.
> 
> 
> You should run tcpdump on 53 and 5353 in multiple places and figure out
> what it is doing, rather than asking us, who can only guess.