[asterisk-users] SIP invite timeouts : how is someone sending invites from our server ??

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 30 17:49:17 CST 2017


I've been getting a lot of timeouts on non-critical invite transactions. 
I turned on sip debug. They were the result of SIP invites like this:

Retransmitting #10 (NAT) to 185.107.94.10:13057:
SIP/2.0 401 Unauthorized
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 
215.45.145.211:5060;branch=z9hG4bK-524287-1---zg4cfkl50hpwpv4p;received=185.107.94.10;rport=13057
From: <sip:a'or'3=3--@<myip-address>;transport=UDP>;tag=fptfih1e
To: <sip:00141225184741@<myip-address>;transport=UDP>;tag=as2913c67b
Call-ID: 5YpLDUSIs6l3xbDXsurYTu..
CSeq: 1 INVITE
Server: Asterisk PBX 13.19.0-rc1
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, 
INFO, PUBLISH, MESSAGE
Supported: replaces, timer
WWW-Authenticate: Digest algorithm=MD5, realm="asterisk_home", 
nonce="14be1363"
Content-Length: 0

---
  WARNING[1868]: chan_sip.c:4065 retrans_pkt: Retransmission timeout 
reached on transmission 5YpLDUSIs6l3xbDXsurYTu.. for seqno 1 
(Non-critical Response) -- See 
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/SIP+Retransmissions
Packet timed out after 32000ms with no response
  WARNING[1868]: chan_sip.c:4124 retrans_pkt: Timeout on 
5YpLDUSIs6l3xbDXsurYTu.. on non-critical invite transaction.

Looking up the ip addresses :

whois 185.107.94.10
.............
inetnum:        185.107.94.0 - 185.107.94.255
netname:        NFORCE_ENTERTAINMENT
descr:          Serverhosting
..................
organisation:   ORG-NE3-RIPE
org-name:       NForce Entertainment B.V.
org-type:       LIR
address:        Postbus 1142
address:        4700BC
address:        Roosendaal
address:        NETHERLANDS
phone:          +31206919299
...................

whois 215.45.145.211
.................
NetRange:       215.0.0.0 - 215.255.255.255
CIDR:           215.0.0.0/8
NetName:        DNIC-NET-215
NetHandle:      NET-215-0-0-0-1
Parent:          ()
NetType:        Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization:   DoD Network Information Center (DNIC)
RegDate:        1998-06-04
Updated:        2011-06-21
Ref:            https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-215-0-0-0-1



OrgName:        DoD Network Information Center
OrgId:          DNIC
Address:        3990 E. Broad Street
City:           Columbus
StateProv:      OH

So how is someone on a Dutch ISP using my server to mess with a US DoD 
ip address ?




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