[asterisk-dev] Issue with PJSIP contacts being "unavailable"

[Joshua C. Colp]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 7:33 PM <asterisk at phreaknet.org> wrote:

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> Thanks - just to clarify, if such a connection *isn't* found, this won't
> help me right now? It would still use the default transport even with
> rewrite_contact=yes?
>

If the transport goes down in that scenario, then the Contact should get
removed because it is an ephemeral port and you can't establish an outbound
connection to it.


>
> In that case, I'm thinking the new option would add on to this by
> extending that behavior to if there isn't an active connection and it
> needs to set up a new one. Basically "use the contact to determine the
> transport, unconditionally" is essentially what it would do.
>

The scenario where this would only work is if rewrite_contact is set to no,
and a Contact is bound from a REGISTER.


>
> I guess for devices that don't register, you wouldn't necessarily have a
> contact so maybe that's why this isn't done all the time? But those are
> probably the cases where specifying a transport explicitly would
> probably make more sense anyways, and I'm not concerned about those,
> only things that register and as such a contact would always be available.
>


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Joshua C. Colp
Asterisk Project Lead
Sangoma Technologies
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