[asterisk-users] Incoming calls from Andrews & Arnold failing to authenticate

[Phil Reynolds]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:45:32 +0100
Julian Beach <jb_soft at trink.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello Phil,
> 
> I have a couple of lines with A&A, and I have not been having any
> problems recently. When I have had similar problems in the past, it
> has been an issue with the SIP config. I originally had a number of
> contexts set up in sip.conf to handle the lines coming in (such as
> [aa-line1], [aa-line2]) each with their own username and password
> settings. The type=user setting was critical, because all the calls
> came from the same IP address, and using type=peer caused matching
> problems which resulted in authentication failures. This got too
> complex to manage once I added in all the IP addresses A&A calls might
> come in from. so I simplified the setup.
> 
> I now have just one context in sip.conf to handle incoming A&A calls,
> with the same username for all lines, and type=peer. Calls are then
> sent to extensions.conf, where the calls are directed to the correct
> call-handler for the line based on the CID. Here is the setup in
> sip.conf for A&A calls:

Actually, this is now sorted. It turns out the latest recommended
configs on the A&A wiki had peer vs. user confusion. On correcting
this, all was well.

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Phil Reynolds
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