Hi Col, >> Any help appreciated. >> >> >> > I don't know if this is exactly the same problem, but it may help. > > I had a similar problem with registration with a sip provider when my > dynamic ip address changed. If my net connection dropped out for > whatever reason, it was assigned a new IP address. This process usually > takes a few seconds. My asterisk box would drop its registration and > start trying to register again, but I would never receive any replys > from the SIP provider. (gotalk in Aus). Pings etc worked fine from the > asterisk box, and every other type of connection I could think of at the > time. I found that if I rebooted my asterisk server it would register > happily. > What was happening was that the SIP provider had somehow kept the last > IP address I had and was sending replies to that address, even though > the new IP was properly sent in the registration request. > I found out that they used a system that decided if you were behind a > NAT router to set a timeout of 3 minutes for your session. After this > period expired they would forget my old IP and use whatever new one the > register request came from. Rebooting my asterisk server took a bit > longer than 3 minutes so the period had expired. ( I think that a > non-NAT session had a timeout of 30 mins) > I used iftop mostly to find this out with captures from tcpdump and > wireshark, and lots and lots of googling. > > Maybe its a similar thing ? > > Hope this helps, Col
Thanks it does help. I think its a similar problem but the registration time out can last hours, when it happens in the evening for example. I definitely think its a configuration issue on the providers side. Will let you know if we find anything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
