[Asterisk-Users] SIP Registration --Giving up forever after very short network outage.

[Kai-Uwe Jensen]

On 8/24/05, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> Try using IP addresses instead of hostnames in sip.conf.  Asterisk's DNS
> support is supposed to be improved in CVS-HEAD, but you should still try it.
> 
> However, using an IP address instread of a hostname in your host= line
> could have issues with some ways a provider might do failover and load
> balancing.

You also want to look at the "registertimeout" and "registerattempts"
options for your sip.conf. I had lots of problem staying registered
with various providers, so now I'm running with "registerattempts=0",
IOW try forever to (re-)register. In conjunction with the
registertimeout you have some control over how often you retry. (IIRC,
both options are CVS-HEAD only, not available in stable. But so is the
"Giving up forever" error. At least I think that's the case.)

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