[Asterisk-Users] iconnect inbound - FIXED (kinda)

[Greg Blakely]

This appears to have been the magic bullet for me.

Thank you very much.

So, the bottom line is that there is a bug that ends up making inbound
calls use type=peer rather than type=user.

Correct? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul Cheng
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:35 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] iconnect inbound - so do we 
> know how to fix it
> 
> All,
> 
> This is related to the following bug reports:
> 
> http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0002024
> http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0002017
> 
> This is not an iConnect specific problem, but a chan_sip 
> change. As it turns out, type=user does not seem to work in 
> the latest CVS (since
> June) for authentication against inbound--at least not in the 
> way the documentation describes.
> 
> What we have resorted to in our offices is have two type=peer 
> contexts in sip.conf defined, the first being outbound, the 
> second being inbound.
> 
> Believe it or not, the order of these peers matters as 
> chan_sip appears to take the LAST defined context as the 
> authentication peer if you have a static host or dns name in 
> the host= field.
> 
> So, to summarize:
> 
> 1) chan_sip.c has changed recently the authentication against 
> type=peer and type=user
> 2) Registration statements that used to work now need to have 
> a matching peer in sip.conf, however, the documentation 
> states that chan_sip will first match type=user and if none 
> is found type=peer. In real life testing with CVS-HEAD from 
> August 4, this did not work.
> 3) What did work is creating an outbound peer with the 
> authentication information such as username, secret, etc. 
> (same as before) and a separate inbound peer with just the 
> context,type=peer, host=, and any other codec preferences etc 
> for the inbound leg.
> 4) This inbound peer has to be AFTER the outbound context 
> otherwise, chan_sip will authenticate against the outbound 
> peer instead of the inbound peer.
> 5) NOTE that the syntax of the registration statement has 
> changed slightly as well (see wiki) and may need to be modified.
> 
> On Aug 9, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Sathya Weerasooriya wrote:
> 
> > Raj, yes your post helped me.
> >
> > Just to complete the whole thing and clarify the problem that was
> >
> > posted by Greg Blakely;
> >
> >> First, if there is no outbound iconnect section in sip.conf, my 
> >> incoming
> > calls work fine (as long as my "register"
> >> statements exist in the top section).
> >
> >> But, when I add an outbound section, using either 'peer' 
> or 'friend,'  
> >>  my
> > incoming calls begin to fail again with the '407
> >> Proxy Authentication' error.
> >
> > When there is a context created in SIP.CONF for iconnect 
> outgoing, we 
> > should point it correctly to extensions.conf. Reason is now the 
> > incoming too land in this context.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Sathya
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Raj
> >> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:29 AM
> >> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] iconnect inbound - so do we 
> know how to 
> >> fix it
> >>
> >>
> >> May be you can find the solution in my post:
> >>
> >> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-August/
> >> 058014.html
> >>
> >> Raj
> >>
> >> --- Vladyslav <vladk at azhelp.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Try to comment out in your sip.conf
> >>> ;qualify=yes
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:52, Sathya Weerasooriya wrote:
> >>>> Just wondering whether we have a resolution to iconnect incoming 
> >>>> problem,  which started few days ago.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> SW
> >>> --
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Vlad
> >>>
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