[Freeswitch-users] freeswitch not honoring /etc/hosts file

David Villasmil david.villasmil.work at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 16:10:51 UTC 2020


Ping would use the system’s dns stack, whereas FS uses its own and doesn’t
use the hosts file (again, a few years ago)

I can make a quick test, and report back.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 16:04, Sean Devoy <sdevoy at bizfocused.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I strongly suspect this is your VPN software.  VPN’s must intercept IP
> packets to route them through the VPN.  That reroute include DNS resolution
> of the final destination. The VPN needs to check the hosts file for the
> final IP. FreeSwitch has nothing to do with it.
>
>
>
> To test, with the VPN up, ping a name in your hosts file.  Please let me
> know the results.
>
>
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> *From:* FreeSWITCH-users <freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Joli Martinez
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:05 PM
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] freeswitch not honoring /etc/hosts file
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a customer that has a VPN tunnel to my network.  I would like this
> customer to connect to me directly not through the SBC.  I have created
> routing between the Freeswitch box and my registrar server.  I have also
> created the entry in the /etc/hosts file.  When I ping the server I get the
> correct response back.  The issue is that Freeswitch is ignoring the
> /etc/hosts entry and doing its own DNS resolution.  How can I tell
> freeswitch to honor the /etc/hosts file entry first then use DNS?
>
>
>
> I am running Debian 10 with freeswitch 1.10.2
>
>
>
> Thanks,
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David Villasmil
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