Hi,
I have occasionally experienced the same problem too, and I suspect it was 
caused by some spikes in network traffic (e.g. for an intensive file transfer) 
that delayed too much SIP OPTION response, so that Asterisk marked these 
devices as UNREACHABLE; I was able to use the devices too: in fact, the only 
drawback is that other devices are not able to call the UNREACHABLE devices 
using Asterisk. The only solution I found was to disable 'qualify' field in SIP 
account, in order to put these devices in unmonitored state. Maybe it's not 
your problem, but you can monitor the network with a sniffer (e.g. ethereal), 
in conjunction with SIP debug in Asterisk (sip set debug) in order to check the 
correct arrival of OPTION response.
Noevertheless, I'm wondering if there is another cause to this issue that is 
not depending on network, but on Asterisk itself, so let me know.


HTH,
cheers

Alberto.

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Sent: lunedì 4 gennaio 2010 22.13
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [asterisk-users] No reply to SIP OPTIONS - sip peers becoming randomly 
UNREACHABLE

Hi guys,

Am having a strange SIP problem in my call centre. The call centre has about 70 
SIP agents (some of the are using SIP hard phones, other SIP softphones), and 
occasionally most of the SIP peers (hardphones and softphones) become 
UNREACHABLE and then after few second again REACHABLE. Some hardphones and 
softphones work perfectly normal during that period (even normally responding 
to OPTIONS message), but most of them get UNREACHABLE.

I don't have NAT - phones and Asterisk are in the same subnet, so nothing 
complicated really (regarding network configuration).

I'm currently suspecting my network to be the problem, but I would just like to 
confirm with you guys, if you have any similar experiences, what could be 
causing this?

Please, see bellow one of the sample SIP traces.

Regards,
Alex

Jan  1 11:17:42 VERBOSE[6046] logger.c: Reliably Transmitting (no NAT) to 
165.11.1.41:5060:
OPTIONS sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 165.11.1.50:5060;branch=a4bG4bK4b7hf375;rport
From: "asterisk" <sip:[email protected]>;tag=as02e1afaa
To: <sip:[email protected]>
Contact: <sip:[email protected]>
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 102 OPTIONS
User-Agent: Asterisk PBX
Max-Forwards: 70
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:42 GMT
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY
Content-Length: 0

Jan  1 11:17:45 VERBOSE[6046] logger.c: Retransmitting #1 (no NAT) to 
165.11.1.41:5060:
OPTIONS sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 165.11.1.50:5060;branch=a4bG4bK4b7hf375;rport
From: "asterisk" <sip:[email protected]>;tag=as02e1afaa
To: <sip:[email protected]>
Contact: <sip:[email protected]>
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 102 OPTIONS
User-Agent: Asterisk PBX
Max-Forwards: 70
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:42 GMT
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY
Content-Length: 0

Jan  1 11:17:46 NOTICE[6046] chan_sip.c: Peer 'TestPhone1' is now UNREACHABLE!  
Last qualify: 14

Jan  1 11:17:56 VERBOSE[6046] logger.c: Reliably Transmitting (no NAT) to 
165.11.1.41:5060:
OPTIONS sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 165.11.1.50:5060;branch=z2h16b637dKh2fd;rport
From: "asterisk" <sip:[email protected]>;tag=as796f6356
To: <sip:[email protected]>
Contact: <sip:[email protected]>
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 102 OPTIONS
User-Agent: Asterisk PBX
Max-Forwards: 70
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:56 GMT
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY
Content-Length: 0

Jan  1 11:17:56 VERBOSE[6046] logger.c: 
<-- SIP read from 165.11.1.41:5060: 
SIP/2.0 200 OK
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 165.11.1.50:5060;branch=z2h16b637dKh2fd;rport
From: "asterisk" <sip:[email protected]>;tag=as796f6356
To: <sip:[email protected]>;tag=5A4BF5F8-460290A9
CSeq: 102 OPTIONS
Call-ID: [email protected]
Contact: <sip:[email protected]>
Allow: INVITE, ACK, BYE, CANCEL, OPTIONS, INFO, MESSAGE, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, 
PRACK, UPDATE, REFER
User-Agent: PolycomSoundPointIP-SPIP_430-UA/2.2.0.0047
Content-Length: 0
Jan  1 11:17:56 VERBOSE[6046] logger.c: --- (10 headers 0 lines) ---
Jan  1 11:17:56 NOTICE[6046] chan_sip.c: Peer 'TestPhone1' is now REACHABLE! 
(16ms / 10000ms)

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