[asterisk-users] SIP-Realtime and sip reload

[SIP]

Henrik Buchholz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2007, 17:14 -0600 schrieb JR Richardson:
>   
>>> I use SIP-Realtime to store my SIP-users and I keep the informations
>>> about the SIP-Providers my Asterisk registers to in sip.conf.
>>>
>>> I'm running into the following problem. If I set rtcachefriends="yes"
>>> because I want to use MWI and run a "sip reload" because I changed
>>> something in sip.conf, Asterisk forgets about all registrations of the
>>> users which are all unavailable after that.
>>>
>>> How can I use rtcachefriends="yes" to allow MWI (isn't it needed for
>>> NAT-keepalive as well?) and don't break everything with a sip reload?
>>>       
>> The short answer is, this is how it works, don't reload sip.conf or
>> loose your cache.
>> You can set your phone registration time lower that 3600 so phones
>> re-register quicker.
>>     
>
> Yes, that was my workaround which might be a solution unless you do a
> reload on the busiest time of the day ;-)
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Henrik
>
>
>   
The lesson to be learned there is that maintenance during the busiest 
time of the day is perhaps a bad idea. ;)

N.