Noob question about DNS

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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We have intermittent issues with parking calls and using the pickup codes to retrieve calls at other phones. I have heard that these issues can be caused by there not being a proper DNS server on the network. Failing having a dedicated DNS server on the network, is it proper or possible point the phones DNS setting to the Asterisk box? I have been using DDwrt routers and am interested in using that to do this if possible. I cannot seem to make the router pass out the DNS IP of my choice. I always get the router IP for my DNS on the PC that I am using. I have been told that the phones will operate much better this way.

True or False?

Thanks for any comments

2

You can run DNS servers on the CentOS operating system. Asterisk itself will not handle DNS requests.

3

Yes, using the Asterisk server for DNS is no problem. You probably need these packages if you haven’t already got them installed:

bind
bind-libs
bind-utils

Also why not use the Asterisk system for DHCP as well if your DDwrt isn’t flexible enough to specify a different DNS server?

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Thanks for the suggestions guys. But I would really rather keep it to the DDWRT. I am not always using a Asterisk box that I can get into the OS