[Asterisk-Users] Office to Office via IAX2 problems

[Noah Miller]

Hi Doug -

> Office A routinely looses connection to Office B. When typing IAX2
> Show Peers, it will show as Unreachable. I issue IAX2 Reload and it
> will work again for 1-3 days (haven't narrowed the time down yet). My
> theory is that the DSL at Office2 is changing IP addresses regularly
> and this is the cause of the problem??? This has been going on since
> I set up Office B (2-3 weeks). I never had to touch Office B box.
> Office B seemed to maintain connection, until now (see Issue 2).

Just to cover all the bases.  Can one machine talk to the other at
all?  Can you ssh from one box to another (if you don't use ssh, can
you telnet to an open tcp port)?  If not, it is surely a routing
issue.

If you can connect via non-asterisk methods, you might try increasing
your qualify value to something higher (qualify=1500), or just remove
it altogether for testing.  It might be that the latency is high
enough that the connection consistently fails to qualify.  (What are
the ping times, BTW?)

I'll second Eric's advice to not use a DNS name for the host, even in
your final setup.

- Noah


On 5/22/06, Lacy Moore - Aspendora <aspendora at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SInce you say it was working, I am assuming that both officea.kicks-ass.net
> and officeb.kicks-ass.net resolves to the real IP address and not an
> internal address, correct?
>
> Also, are you providing DNS or someone else?  Is this domain registered to
> you?  I ask that because if it is not, and you are not providing DNS, it may
> be resolving to another IP address.  But, since you said it is the same
> using an IP address, this should not be the real issue.
>
> I'm not sure this would really have anything to do with it, but, if it was
> me, I would not have the two offices on the same subnet.  I'd use 192.168.1
> for one and 192.168.2 for the other.  It just keeps things a little simpler
> routing wise.
>
>
>
>
> On 5/22/06, asterisk at txpe.net <asterisk at txpe.net> wrote:
> > Thanks.  I had already tried going into Office B box and change host=
> > (office A's IP address), performed iax2 reload, and this did not work
> either.
> >
> > At 10:51 AM 5/22/2006, you wrote:
> > >Don't specify the remote side by name, specify it by IP address.  If
> > >asterisk experiences even 1 dns failure it will not try again until
> > >a reload/restart/whatever.
> > >
> > >asterisk at txpe.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >>SETUP:
> > >>OFFICE A:
> > >>iax_additional.conf:
> > >>[lpeaus]
> > >>username=lpeaus-user
> > >>type=peer
> > >>secret=<secret>
> > >>qualify=yes
> > >>host=officeb.kicks-ass.net
> > >>context=from-internal
> > >>[lpenb-user]
> > >>type=user
> > >>secret=<secret>
> > >>host=officeb.kicks-ass.net
> > >>context=from-internal
> > >>
> > >>OFFICE B:
> > >>iax_additional.conf :
> > >>[lpeaus-user]
> > >>type=user
> > >>secret=<secret>
> > >>host=officea.kicks-ass.net
> > >>context=from-internal
> > >>[lpenb]
> > >>username=lpenb-user
> > >>type=peer
> > >>secret=<secret>
> > >>qualify=yes
> > >>host=officea.kicks-ass.net
> > >>context=from-internal
> >
> >
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