[SR-Users] permanent usrloc entries in Kamailio

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

On 9/6/11 3:54 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Recently I had a problem with permanent usrloc entries when upgrading a
> server from SER 0.9 to Kamailio 3.1.
>
> Obviously the problem was that the permanent entries had "flag=128" and
> now expires=0 is used, see old thread:
>
> http://old.nabble.com/usrloc-permanent-records-and-strptime-td17668417.html
>
> The strange thing is, that even setting the expiry to 2099-0...... did
> not worked and Kamailio deleted the "expired" entries. Only setting it
> to "1970-01-01 01:00:00" worked.
>
> Any ideas what could been wrong?
what do you see if you dump UL entries via MI? By year 2038 it time_t 
will overflow and go negative in many 32b OSes.

>
> Further I wonder why Kamailio uses 01:00:00 for the permanent entry? The
> server is currently running in timezon CEST (UTC+2), thus IMO 02:00:00
> would be more logical.
>
> Above thread also mentions problems with day-light-saving changes. Are
> there really problems? How do you solve those problems? I think the best
> workaround is to set system time always to UTC.
Sticking to UTC is making easy the life with accounting as well.

Cheers,
Daniel

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- http://www.asipto.com
Kamailio Advanced Training, Oct 10-13, Berlin: http://asipto.com/u/kat
http://linkedin.com/in/miconda -- http://twitter.com/miconda