[email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:18:48 +0200 > Eugen, > see below. >> Damien Sandras wrote: >>> Le jeudi 15 octobre 2009 à 15:26 +1000, [email protected] a >>> écrit : >>>> Hi, >>>> I have mentioned this problem before but I now have some more info. >>>> >>>> I have about 40 numbers in my contact list, when ekiga tries to >>>> register it issues a dns subscribe request for every single phone >>>> number really quickly and repeats this. >>>> I have just rung my isp and they saw the requests coming in and >>>> treat it as a DOS attack and block my phone for 30mins. >>>> Hence the registration drops out, and the cycle starts again. >>>> >>>> In my case most of my contact list are normal phones not actual sip >>>> addresses, it makes no sense to try to determine their status. >>>> >>>> So my ekiga 3.2.6 is unusable at present. >>>> >>>> Please advise if there is a way to turn this function off. >>> There is no way currently. >>> I do not know how to fix that without adding a new obscure setting >>> to Ekiga. >>> >>> Perhaps using the address book would be more appropriate than the >>> contact list for that specific case ? >> The problem is not that ekiga does a DNS request for each contact >> (even if a DNS cache could be implemented in opal to optimise this); >> the problem is that it issues many DNS requests. How does this >> happen? >> >> Could that be a DNS configuration problem? Reporter, could you check: >> - how many DNS requests are sent with only one contact (one or many?) > I removed all of my contacts except one. > Fired up ekiga again and approx 8 dns messages got fired off. These > were being repeated every 30secs or so. > Went into accounts and unregistered, the dns messages stopped. > > Waited 30mins because my isp told me that they block the port for that > time. > > Went into accounts and reregistered, same deal as above. > >> (In *normal* gconf configuration, you could save your config with "cp >> -a .gconf/apps/ekiga .gconf/apps/ekiga-save", and restore it >> afterwards) > did not do this but I can soon put the numbers back. > >> - with wireshark if your firsts DNS requests receive errors, so ekiga >> > Ok, I am familiar with wireshark, but have not done this yet. What > would be the best ports to put it on? > dns(53) or 5060?
Close network-using applications (such as icedove/thuderbird). You start wireshark, listen to your interface, start ekiga, wait for the flood, stop listening in wireshark. That's all. > Am I supposed to put a dns server somewhere into ekiga? No. Could you just show us the content of /etc/resolv.conf? -- Eugen _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
