[asterisk-users] Bug with Realtime?

[Carlos Chavez]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:04 -0400, Dan Journo wrote:
> I checked the bug reports and all I could find was similar issues with the Asterisk 1.6 which (according to the reports) have been resolved.
> I couldnt find anyone talking about 1.4 so I created a new issue and someone closed the case and added this note:-
> 
> > This does not appear to be a bug, but rather a support issue. Please use the asterisk-users mailing list for such issues.
> > The problem looks like your device has not re-registered after your 'sip reload' which means it does not exist in memory, and thus causes Asterisk to 
> > not know where to send the call. Your device needs to re-register after a 'sip reload' in order for Asterisk to know where to send the call.
> 
> I really think that "sip reload" shouldn't purge all the realtime peer registrations. It should treat the realtime peers the same way as the hardcoded peers. As i've said, the hardcoded peers don't lose registration when I issue a SIP RELOAD. 
> Asterisk should be flexible enough to allow modification of the sip.conf file without losing all the realtime registrations.
> 
> Does anyone have a comment on the subject? Am I expecting too much?
> I'm open to feedback.
> 
	I use realtime on 1.4 and 1.6 servers but always with
rtcachefriends=yes in sip.conf so I can use things like sip show peers.
My experience is that when I issue a sip reload all registrations
disappear but the moment a call comes in for a peer it uses the last IP
where it was registered to send the call.  I guess this is the
equivalent do doing "sip show peer XXX load".  The peer does not need to
register again to get calls.

	I think this works because the internal database has the last IP of the
peer even after a sip reload.  If you do a "database show" you will see
something like:

/SIP/Registry/XXXX
192.168.2.215:5060:3600:XXXX:sip:XXXX at 192.168.2.215:5060;transport=udp

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Carlos Chavez
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