[Serusers] help: I keep getting '483 Too Many Hops'

[Nils Ohlmeier]

Read the fine manual at 
http://www.iptel.org/ser/doc/seruser/seruser.html#AEN330
and try alias in your config.

Regards
  Nils

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 00:11, Felix Schmid wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I set up ser with user authentication turned on on my home gateway
> today. I got an dyndns address, which I set SER_DOMAIN to before I set
> up mysql (with ser_mysql.sh) and added a user.
>
> Now, if I try to register (with kphone) using the gateways' name in the
> internal lan as host part of the SIP url (i.e. ('hostname.localdomain'),
> everything seems to work fine. However, if I set the host part of the
> SIP url to the dyndns host name ('hostname.dyndns.org'), I keep getting
> '483 Too many hops' repsonses.
>
> I watched the network traffic on my dialup adapter (using ngrep) and
> found that there's a loop in the REGISTER requests (the request is
> coming in and going out in a looping manner several times - with another
> Via: header being added each time).
>
> Can someone explain to me what is going on? Why doesn't the 'if
> (uri==myself)' line in the default ser.cfg catch the request? How does
> ser interpret 'myself' if it's listening on  several addresses (it
> detects three on my setup - lo/127.0.0.1, the internal lan address and
> the dialup address)? I think the problem is the dialup addresses'
> assigned alias name - it gets assigned the name
> 'dsl-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.arcor-ip.net', but not the dyndns name. In fact, if
> I attempt to connect with 'dsl-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.arcor-ip.net' as host
> part of the SIP url it works - though the request seems to be routed
> directly to gateway (no output on the ngrep on the dialup interface).
> Can I configure ser to use another alias for the dialup address? I tried
> starting ser with '-l hostname.dyndns.org', but it complains with
> 'hostname.dyndns.org: not found'... I am really lost now... :-(
>
> Any insights are very appreciated...
>
> cheers,
> felix