[Users] OpenSER as a Load Balancer for Asterisk and RE-INVITEs

Christian Schlatter cs at unc.edu
Sun Mar 25 20:46:31 CEST 2007


Edoardo Serra wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I have an OpenSER acting as a registrar server and as a load 
> balancer (with dispatcher module) for a cluster of PSTN Gateways based 
> on Asterisk.
> 
> When an inbound call is coming from the PSTN, Asterisks dial 
> SIP/user at openser and the call is properly forwarded to the correct user 
> in OpenSER location table
> 
> But, if the user wants, for example, to put the call On-Hold, its user 
> agent sends a RE-INVITE to OpenSER.
> My problem is that OpenSER (correctly) dispatch the call to a random 
> Asterisk GW, and, if it's not the GW which is handling the call, On-Hold 
> does not work and another call is originated.

The call hold RE-INVITE issued by the called UA should include an R-URI 
including the contact address of the GW who initiated the SIP call. So 
if a call comes from asterisk.1 the RE-INVITE should include a R-URI 
like "INVITE sip:ip.of.asterisk.1" (depending of what asterisk.1 puts in 
its contact header).

In your script you always call ds_select_dst and the RE-INVITEs get 
routed to a destination from the dispatcher destination set instead of 
using the R-URI to route the call to the correct GW.

Since you record route each request you could test if the following works:

 >         # loose-route processing
 >         if (loose_route()) {
 >                 # mark routing logic in request
 >                 append_hf("P-hint: rr-enforced\r\n");
 >
 >                 # don't do ds_select_dst here since the R-URI
 >                 # of RE-INVITEs should
 >                 # contain the correct GW address
 >                 t_relay();
 >                 exit;
 >         };


Christian

> 
> Tnx in advance for help
> 
> Edoardo
> 
> My openser.cfg follows
> 
> # $Id: ser.cfg,v 1.21.4.1 2003/11/10 15:35:15 andrei Exp $
> # ----------- global configuration parameters ------------------------
> 
> check_via=yes    # (cmd. line: -v)
> dns=no          # (cmd. line: -r)
> rev_dns=no      # (cmd. line: -R)
> fifo="/tmp/ser_fifo"
> 
> #uid=nobody
> #gid=nobody
> 
> # ------------------ module loading ----------------------------------
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/sl.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/tm.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/rr.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/maxfwd.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/usrloc.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/registrar.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/nathelper.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/textops.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/exec.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/uri.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/uri_db.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/dispatcher.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/mysql.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/auth.so"
> loadmodule "/usr/lib/openser/modules/auth_db.so"
> 
> modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 2)
> modparam("usrloc", "db_url", "mysql://user:pass@192.168.252.5/openser")
> modparam("usrloc", "timer_interval", 120)
> modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", 0)
> modparam("auth_db", "db_url", "mysql://user:pass@192.168.252.5/db")
> modparam("uri_db", "db_url", "mysql://user:pass@192.168.252.5/openser")
> modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1)
> modparam("registrar", "nat_flag", 6)
> modparam("registrar", "max_expires", 3600)
> modparam("registrar", "min_expires", 60)
> modparam("registrar", "append_branches", 0)
> modparam("registrar", "desc_time_order", 1)
> modparam("nathelper", "natping_interval", 20) # Ping interval 20 s
> modparam("nathelper", "ping_nated_only", 1)   # Ping only clients behind 
> NAT
> modparam("dispatcher", "force_dst", 1)
> 
> # -------------------------  request routing logic -------------------
> # main routing logic
> 
> route{
>         if (!mf_process_maxfwd_header("10")) {
>                 sl_send_reply("483","Too Many Hops");
>                 exit;
>         };
>         if ( msg:len > max_len ) {
>                 sl_send_reply("513", "Message too big");
>                 exit;
>         };
> 
>         if ( (method=="OPTIONS") || (method=="SUBSCRIBE") || 
> (method=="NOTIFY") ) {
>                 sl_send_reply("405", "Method Not Allowed");
>                 exit;
>         }
> 
>         if (!method=="REGISTER") {
>                 record_route();
>         };
> 
> 
>         if ((src_ip==ip.of.asterisk.1) || (src_ip==ip.of.asterisk.1)) {
>                 if (!lookup("location")) {
>                         sl_send_reply("486", "Busy here");
>                         exit;
>                 };
>                 if (!t_relay()) {
>                         sl_reply_error();
>                 };
>                 exit;
>         };
> 
>         if (nat_uac_test("3")) {
>                 if ((method=="REGISTER") || (method=="INVITE") || 
> (method=="OPTIONS")) {
>                         fix_nated_contact();
>                         force_rport();
>                         setflag(6);    # Mark as NATed
>                 }
>         }
> 
>         if (method=="REGISTER") {
>                 if (!proxy_authorize("exorsa", "openser_view")) {
>                         proxy_challenge("exorsa", "0");
>                         exit;
>                 }
>                 if (!check_to()) {
>                         sl_send_reply("403", "Digest username and URI 
> username do NOT match! Stay away!");
>                         exit;
>                 }
> 
>                 save("location");
> 
>                 exit;
>         };
> 
> 
>     if (method=="INVITE") {
>         if (!proxy_authorize("exorsa", "openser_view")) {
>             proxy_challenge("exorsa", "0");
>             exit;
>         }
> 
>         if (!check_from()) {
>             sl_send_reply("403", "Digest username and URI username do 
> NOT match! Stay away!");
>             exit;
>         }
>     }
> 
>         # loose-route processing
>         if (loose_route()) {
>                 # mark routing logic in request
>                 append_hf("P-hint: rr-enforced\r\n");
>                 route(1);
>                 exit;
>         };
> 
>         if (!uri==myself) {
>                 # mark routing logic in request
>                 append_hf("P-hint: outbound\r\n");
>                 route(1);
>                 exit;
>         };
> 
>         append_hf("P-hint: usrloc applied\r\n");
>         route(1);
> }
> 
> route[1]
> {
>         # !! Nathelper
>         if (uri=~"[@:](192\.168\.|10\.|172\.(1[6-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])\.)" 
> && !search("^Route:")){
>             sl_send_reply("479", "We don't forward to private IP 
> addresses");
>             exit;
>         };
> 
>         # NAT processing of replies; apply to all transactions (for 
> example,
>         # re-INVITEs from public to private UA are hard to identify as
>         # NATed at the moment of request processing); look at replies
>         t_on_reply("1");
> 
>     if ((src_ip!=ip.of.asterisk.1) && (src_ip!=ip.of.asterisk.2)) {
>             ds_select_dst("1", "0");
>         }
> 
>         if (!t_relay()) {
>                 sl_reply_error();
>         };
> }
> 
> # !! Nathelper
> onreply_route[1] {
>     # NATed transaction ?
>     if (isflagset(6) && status =~ "(183)|2[0-9][0-9]") {
>         fix_nated_contact();
>     # otherwise, is it a transaction behind a NAT and we did not
>     # know at time of request processing ? (RFC1918 contacts)
>     } else if (nat_uac_test("1")) {
>         fix_nated_contact();
>     };
> }
> 
> 
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