[Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers' really used for?

[Douglas Garstang]

How does it do that? A 'sip show peers' doesn't show an IP address for the peer. Does it store it internally, and not show you when do you a 'sip show peers', or does it pull the IP address from astdb?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: C F [mailto:shmaltz at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:40 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ok... what is 'sip show peers' 
> really used
> for?
> 
> 
> I use it to order pizza. Just kidding, but among others it tells you
> what IP address Asterisk knows for a peer, as well as the qualify
> status.
> 
> On 3/23/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > I'd love to understand what the function of the peer list 
> returned by 'sip show peers' is for, especially when Realtime is used.
> >
> > If I start Asterisk with realtime enabled, a 'sip show 
> peers' yields none. As each peer (phone) registers, or a call 
> is made to the peer, Asterisk adds them to the list returned 
> by 'sip show peers'. Correct?
> >
> > Apparently Asterisk doesn't refer to thie list however, 
> when deciding where a peer is located. It uses astdb instead 
> (I have rtcachefriends=yes). I cleared the fullcontact field 
> in the database, and placed a call. The only place that 
> Asterisk could get the peer's IP address from was astdb, as 
> the peer wasn't in 'sip show peers' as I purposefully cleared 
> the fullcontact field for all peers in the database.
> >
> > So... what's the point of this? Is it used for anything? It 
> looks like it uses it for voicemail, but that's it. Ie if the 
> peer isn't in 'sip show peers' then voicemail does not get 
> delivered, EVEN if it's in astdb.
> >
> > Also, if all my phones are defined as friends, why does a 
> 'sip show friends' return a smaller list than 'sip show 
> peers'??? If the phones are all defined as friends, which are 
> both peer and user, then a 'sip show friends' should return 
> all the phones, but it does not.
> >
> > No wonder I'm confused.
> >
> > :(
> >
> > Doug.
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