@gbaughma wrote:
So, our internet hiccuped this morning, and phones went bats**t.
Here’s the scenario:
Our phones have no “outside” connections. They are on their own network, their own switches, and other than the gateway no connection to our data/computer network. Makes it nice and easy and isolated.For some reason, however, FreePBX requires that DNS be working.
No DNS, no working phone calls.
Now, we have internal DNS servers, and I’d be glad to point my PBX to those servers, but what, exactly, is FreePBX looking for? It makes absolutely no sense to me that a PBX whose phones connect by IP address, whose servers are defined in the local network configuration, loses its mind when it loses Internet.
We’re not even using SIP trunks… we have a PRI. The system should be able to stand alone without internet connection at all.
Can someone give me some insight about what I need to do to make my PBX less dependent on an internet connection it shouldn’t even need?
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