[Asterisk-Users] What does the error "stale nonce' mean?

[Bob Goddard]

On Monday 03 Oct 2005 08:51, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> Paul Conn wrote:
> > I’m receiving the following error over and over, adnauseam:
> >
> >
> >
> > Oct  1 23:59:53 NOTICE[3194]: chan_sip.c:5890 check_auth: stale nonce
> > received from ‘CNAME-CID <sip:5551212 at 192.168.1.X>’
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know what “stale nonce” is?
>
> I've answered this question many times, so you should be able to find
> the answer...
>
> A stale nonce is when a device tries to re-authenticate with a nonce
> that is no longer valid. We are telling them that the nonce they used is
> invalid, and re-issue a new challenge and a fresh nonce. It's just an
> informative message, that I propably should move away to a debug level
> of some kind.

I wish someone had read a British dictionary before they
decided to use this word.... It make no sense at all.


B