[Asterisk-Users] Sip Registration Problem

[Karl Brose]

It's a bug in Asterisk.
I believe it's still open also on the bugtracker. There are a few 
reported senarios with these kind of problems.
Some of them where solved with the recent 'ast_gethostbyname' fix. Are 
you running a recent version?

Btw, Ignoring OPTIONS is not a valid option (:-) whether sip proxy or 
not, Asterisk doesn't do it correctly either.
The host should respond with 200/OK if the call >could< succeed 
theoretically if it were an INVITE or else it should send a
404 or maybe a 487(? hmm, have to look)  see the RFC for details.

Brett Nemeroff wrote:

> Hi All,
> I had an unusual problem today; I'm sure it's a configuration problem.
>  
> I had 2 phones behind a nat device and I had qualify=300 in both 
> extensions config. The device I was talking to was an edgewater 
> traffic shaper,/Sip Proxy. Since it is acting as a sip proxy, it was 
> ignoring the OPTIONS messages that * was sending, and thus * 
> interpreted that as the extensions being down.
>  
> I removed the qualify lines and sip reload [ed]. The extension still 
> showed up as "UNREACHABLE" instead of "UNMONITORED". I had to do a 
> full restart to get it to stop sending the OPTIONS messages.
>  
> What did I do wrong here? How can I make a change to qualify without 
> restarting?
>  
>
> Thanks all,
> Brett
>