[Asterisk-Users] Problems receiving SIP calls

[Rich Adamson]

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:21:37PM +1000, Simon Brown wrote:
> > I can make calls out to my SIP provider but get an "unable to authenticate
> > <calling no.> when I try to call in via the PSTN number they have supplied me
> > (where <calling no.> = phone number trying to make the call)
> 
> we had similar problems on three different Asterisk installations with
> different Asterisk versions over the last days. Sometimes it looked
> like a sipgate related problem. We got some more calls through sipgate
> after inserting insecure=very in the [sipgate] section in our
> sip.conf. Now it seems, that the problems are gone and its working
> without insecure=very again.

There has been far more then one implementor that didn't realize that
many of the changes made to sip.conf (and other config files) are not
used unless you stop and restart asterisk. A Reload doesn't cut it.
Are you sure you're restarting asterisk after the parameter changes?