[SR-Users] Using Kamalio as a proxy for internal servers

[Olle E. Johansson]

You need to define another listen= without the advertise for communication with internal servers. Either another IP or another port.

/O

> On 6 Sep 2020, at 17:34, Moshe Katz <kohenkatz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> (Note: I previously posted a more detailed version of this question on StackOverflow at https://stackoverflow.com/q/63760506/829970 <https://stackoverflow.com/q/63760506/829970> . This version is simplified to fit better in an email.)
> 
> I have Kamailio 5.4.1 (and RTPEngine) running on an internal server with a private IP address 172.31.7.96 and One-to-one NAT to an external IP address. The external IP is 192.0.2.100. (Note: The internal IP addresses are all unedited, but the public IPs have been replaced with TEST-NET-1 and TEST-NET-2 example addresses.) I will eventually be doing transcoding with RTPEngine, but for now this is a simple SIP Proxy.
> 
> Kamailio is installed on Ubuntu 18.04 using the DEB packages from dev.kamailio.org/kamailio54 <http://dev.kamailio.org/kamailio54> and is using the stock configuration that comes with those packages, except for the following changes:
> 
> #!define WITH_NAT
> #!define WITH_RTPENGINE
> #!define WITH_MYSQL
> #!define WITH_AUTH
> #!define WITH_IPAUTH
> 
> listen=udp:0.0.0.0:5060 <http://0.0.0.0:5060/> advertise 192.0.2.100:5060 <http://192.0.2.100:5060/>
> 
> #!define DBURL "mysql://kamailio:REAL_PASSWORD_HERE@127.0.0.1/kamailio <http://kamailio:REAL_PASSWORD_HERE@127.0.0.1/kamailio>"
> 
> I have internal SIP servers with private IP addresses in the 172.31.7.0/24 <http://172.31.7.0/24> range that I want to have send all SIP traffic through the Kamailio server. The internal servers are running a Java SIP client with the `OUTBOUND_PROXY` setting set to 172.31.7.96.
> 
> The problem I have is that the SIP `200 OK` message sent by Kamailio to my SIP server has its `Record-Route` header set to the public IP address `192.0.2.100` instead of the private address `172.31.7.96`. The SIP client therefore tries to send the `ACK` message back to the public address, but it has no route to the public address so the ACK never gets sent.
> 
> How can I configure Kamailio to use the public IP for external traffic but the private IP for communicating with internal machines on the same subnet?
> 
> I tried setting `mhomed=1`, but the machine isn't actually multi-homed so that didn't work.
> 
> I thought of adding a second listen line `listen=udp:172.31.7.96:5061 <http://172.31.7.96:5061/>` and having the internal servers talk to port 5061, but that doesn't work because Kamailio uses the 5061 definition for the external side too.
> 
> I see in the docs that it is possible to name the listener lines, but I don't understand how to use those names in a way that would be relevant to my issue.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help,
> 
> Moshe
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