[asterisk-users] DUNDi peers disconnect after being connected for months or years, cannot reconnect again

[asterisk at phreaknet.org]

On 7/27/2022 11:34 AM, Court Campbell wrote:
>
> I realize that the heyday of DUNDi was about 2008, and that there’s 
> less and less information online about it and lots of people don’t use 
> it anymore and use static IAX trunks instead. But we have 53 asterisk 
> phone systems connecting our locations, and so creating static IAX 
> trunks (even with a regional hub and spoke model) is a significant 
> undertaking.
>
> We’ve had issues with DUNDi peers disconnecting in the past and with 
> Elastix used to have to do an amportal restart on the PBX to have it 
> reconnect again. But the new issue that we’re seeing is that the peer 
> refuses to reconnect again, even after changing the long secret key in 
> dundi_general, the MAC address of the VM the PBX is running on, the IP 
> of the PBX and recreating the public/private keypair.
>
Do you have any logs/debug demonstrating this?
>
> The PBX that disconnected will not reconnect to any DUNDi peers at 
> all, even to a completely new VM that we stand up at the same site on 
> the same virtual switch on the same host. We are only trying to do 
> inter-site extension dialing, not routing external calling between 
> sites using DUNDi.
>
> I’m also okay with giving up on DUNDi if anybody else has a less 
> labour intensive way of routing extension dialing between that many 
> PBXes than a web of static IAX trunks.
>
>

Why not run a centralized lookup scheme for routing, using ENUM or an 
HTTPS API? That's what I generally see these days for large networks 
using IAX2 trunking; I've only encountered one setup recently using 
DUNDi. Assuming that central server is always routing, you then have a 
single source of truth for call routing.

> Here are the config files. I removed all the ; commented lines in 
> dundi.conf to save space.
>
> Iax_custom.conf
>
> [dundi]
>
> type=user
>
> dbsecret=dundi/secret
>
> context=ext-local
>
> disallow=all
>
> allow=ulaw
>
> allow=g726
>
> dundi.conf
>
> [general]
>
> #include dundi_general_custom.conf
>
> ttl=32
>
> autokill=yes
>
> [mappings]
>
> #include dundi_mappings_custom.conf
>
> #include dundi_peers_custom.conf
>
> dundi_mappings.conf
>
> priv => 
> dundi-priv-canonical,0,IAX2,dundi:${SECRET}@PBX_IP/${NUMBER},nopartial
>
> priv => 
> dundi-priv-customers,100,IAX2,dundi:${SECRET}@PBX_IP/${NUMBER},nopartial
>
> priv => 
> dundi-priv-via-pstn,400,IAX2,dundi:${SECRET}@PBX_IP/${NUMBER},nopartial
>
> dundi_general.conf
>
> organization=
>
> locality=
>
> stateprov=
>
> country=
>
> email=
>
> phone=
>
> department=
>
> secret=secret key
>
> entityid=MAC address
>
> dundi_peers.conf
>
> [server A MAC]
>
> model=symmetric
>
> host=
>
> inkey=
>
> outkey=
>
> his_status=connected
>
> include=priv
>
> permit=priv
>
> qualify=yes
>
> order=primary
>
> [server B MAC]
>
> model=symmetric
>
> host=
>
> inkey=
>
> outkey=
>
> his_status=connected
>
> include=priv
>
> permit=priv
>
> qualify=yes
>
> order=primary
>
> extensions_custom.conf
>
> [from-internal]
>
> include => from-internal-noxfer
>
> include => from-internal-xfer
>
> include => dundi-priv-lookup
>
> include => bad-number ; auto-generated
>
> exten => h,1,Macro(hangupcall)
>
> ; ********************************************
>
> ; CONFIGURACION PARA DUNDi
>
> [dundi-priv-canonical]
>
> ; Here we include the context that contains the extensions.
>
> exten => _9999X,1,Macro(stdexten,${EXTEN})
>
> ;include => ext-local
>
> ; Here we include the context that contains the queues.
>
> ; include => ext-queues
>
> [dundi-priv-customers]
>
> ; If you have customers (or resell services) we can list them here
>
> [dundi-priv-via-pstn]
>
> ; Here we include the context with our trunk to the PSTN,
>
> ; if we want the other teams can use our trunks
>
> ;include => outbound-allroutes
>
> [dundi-priv-local]
>
> ; In this context we unify the three contexts, we can use this as
>
> ; context of the trunks of dundi iax
>
> include => dundi-priv-canonical
>
> include => dundi-priv-customers
>
> include => dundi-priv-via-pstn
>
> [dundi-priv-lookup]
>
> ; This context is responsible for making the search for a number of dundi
>
> ; Before you do the search properly define our caller id.
>
> ; because if not we have a caller id as 'device<0000>'.
>
> exten => _X.,1,Macro(user-callerid)
>
> exten => _X.,n,Macro(dundi-priv,${EXTEN})
>
> exten => _X.,n,GotoIf($['${DIALSTATUS}' = 'BUSY']?100)
>
> exten => _X.,n,Goto(bad-number,${EXTEN},1)
>
> exten => _X.,100,Playtones(congestion)
>
> exten => _X.,101,Congestion(10)
>
> [macro-dundi-priv]
>
> ; This is the macro is called from the context [dundi-priv-lookup]
>
> ; It also avoids having loops in the consultations dundi.
>
> exten => s,1,Goto(${ARG1},1)
>
> switch => DUNDi/priv
>
> ; ********************************************
>