[asterisk-dev] Configured IPv6 transport in endpoint being overwritten by IPv4

[Joshua C. Colp]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:49 AM roger <roger at beardandsandals.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 13/05/2020 17:04, roger wrote:
> >
> > On 13/05/2020 13:44, roger wrote:
> >> I will strip strip everything out of the conf files except the ipv6
> >> stuff and see what happens.
> >
> > The stripped out version  retains the ipv6 transport. I will do some
> > more testing to try and isol;ate which parts of the old config cause
> > the problem.
> >
>
> I have no  pinned the problem.down to two lines in the pjsip endpoint
> config.
>
> [anonymous](+)
> transport=ipv6
>
> These date back to when I first did the work to get IPv6 working with
> freepbx. I had to put this in for some reason I no longer remember. The
> anonymous endpoint is now longer created by freepbx. So this config is
> not needed anymore.
>
> However I not determined how these lines interfere with the transport
> setting in the ipv6 endpoint that is created earlier on the config.The
> only thing is see in the log files is are a number of lines like this.
>
> [2020-05-14 12:48:37] WARNING[19078] config.c: Category addition
> requested, but category 'anonymous' does not exist, line 1 of
> /etc/asterisk/pjsip.endpoint_custom_post.conf
>
> So the question is does this warning mean that the rest of the file is
> ignored?
>
> If it does that6 explains the problem I see. But the warning is
> msileading, it should be an error and should tell the user that the rest
> of the file has been ignored.
>

The .conf parser appears to consider the entire file invalid if it
considers errors like that, so the entire thing would be ignored. You can
file an issue to provide better error information for this situation[1].

[1] https://issues.asterisk.org/jira

-- 
Joshua C. Colp
Asterisk Technical Lead
Sangoma Technologies
Check us out at www.sangoma.com and www.asterisk.org
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