[Serusers] NAT contat rewrite

Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul pelinescu-onciul at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Sun Jul 18 13:26:24 CEST 2004


On Jul 18, 2004 at 11:22, Linus Surguy <linus at magrathea-telecom.co.uk> wrote:
> > Contacts are used to advertised wherebouts for subsequent in-dialog
> > requests coming back to your UAC. For that reason, I don't entirely
> > understand why the UAC includes Contact in CANCEL at all -- all in all
> > CANCEL is used to discontinued estabslishment of a dialog. Anyhow,
> > it should not matter the Contact content is invalid since there is no
> > use for the header field in this case at all.
> 
> Sorry, just realised that in a half-awake state I typed rubbish. I meant
> that the 'call-id' was not rewritten - don't know why I mentioned contact!
> (In the INVITE to the Cisco it is blah at 213.x.x.x and in the CANCEL to Cisco
> it is blah at 10.x.x.x

Then it's even stranger. ser/nathelper doesn't re-write the callid.
Maybe you have a nat box on the way, which is trying to be smart and fix
sip messages.


Andrei




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