[Serusers] fed up and need guidance

[Mat Harris]

what about running some sort of sip proxy on the firewalls?

i have seen a few on freshmeat etc, but have no idea yes or no.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Jan Janak wrote:
> OK, there is no addRecordRoute in your config script so you will have to
> add it in config files of BOTH SIP servers. Simply add addRecordRoute()
> just before line containing if(!t_relay()) {...
> 
> Without addRecordRoute() NOTIFY messages will be send directly from one
> UA to the other and your firewall will block it.
> 
> But it will still not handle responses properly. To do that you will
> have to put public IP of NAT box into Via and into Record-Route headers
> and this is currently under development, I recommend you to wait for the
> next release.
> 
>   Jan.
> 
> On 16-04 15:09, Mat Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:58:37PM +0200, Jan Janak wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Do you have record routing enabled ? (You must have rewriteFromRoute()
> > > and addRecordRoute() in your script). Please send us as much information
> > > as possible (ser configs, ser logs, message dumps etc..)
> > > 
> > >   Jan.
> > > 
> > 
> > hi, thanks for the quick response, its great of you to help out :)
> > 
> > ok here's a summary of all the probs.
> > 
> > using msn messenger i can connect to the ser server at my house from my home
> > lan. i cannot connect to the server at work nor can i connect from work to
> > my house.
> > 
> > if i use sipsack from the server itself i get
> > 
> > [3:03pm]maiden:~% /usr/local/bin/sipsak-0.8.1/sipsak -T -s \
> > sip:matthewh at genestate.com
> > warning: IP extract from warning activated to be more informational
> > 0: 10.194.217.5 (0.972 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 1: 10.194.217.5 (7.596 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 2: 10.194.217.5 (11.760 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 3: 10.194.217.5 (18.771 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 4: 10.194.217.5 (26.441 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 5: 10.194.217.5 (33.709 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 6: 10.194.217.5 (53.847 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 7: 10.194.217.5 (66.244 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 8: 10.194.217.5 (76.296 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 9: 10.194.217.5 (87.163 ms) SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops
> > 
> > and that goes on forever. it just times out if i do the -vv option.
> > 
> > all the while this is going on, i get messages like these in the message
> > log:
> > 
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2342]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad body for
> > <User-Agent>(4194304)
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2342]: ERROR: bad header  field
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2342]: ERROR: build_res_buf_from_sip_req: alas,
> > parse_headers failed
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2345]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad body for
> > <User-Agent>(4194304)
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2345]: ERROR: bad header  field
> > Apr 16 14:33:56 maiden ./ser[2345]: ERROR: build_res_buf_from_sip_req: alas,
> > parse_headers failed
> > Apr 16 14:33:58 maiden ./ser[2343]: ERROR: get_hdr_field: bad body for
> > <User-Agent>(4194304)
> > Apr 16 14:33:58 maiden ./ser[2343]: ERROR: bad header  field
> > Apr 16 14:33:58 maiden ./ser[2343]: ERROR: build_res_buf_from_sip_req: alas,
> > parse_headers failed
> > 
> > i have posted my config to my site
> > (http://www.genestate.com/debug/sip/ser.cfg)
> > 
> > i have not taken any special steps as far as firewall routing or anything
> > like that other than forwarding port 5060 as i said previously.
> > 
> > I do not know anything about the config directives you just spoke of so I do
> > not know how to answer you.
> > 
> > i think the beast thing would be for me to start from scratch and do it
> > properly with help from someone who knows more that me as I have probably
> > screwed this attemp :)
> > 
> > thanks again
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mat Harris			OpenGPG Public Key ID: C37D57D9
> > mat.harris at genestate.com	www.genestate.com	
> 
> 



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Mat Harris			OpenGPG Public Key ID: C37D57D9
mat.harris at genestate.com	www.genestate.com	
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