[Freeswitch-users] Phones registered to internal profile hit external profile when calling

Wed Oct 23 19:07:49 MSD 2013

Donny, It's a balancing act, people choose commercial routers because 
they want it all to 'just work' and not have to get into the guts of 
it.  That's what please expect and  pay for-- 'just working', you pay 
for not being forced to learn the guts and 'deal with it'.

My policy has been that if the commercial router doesn't come with a 
staff member at the commercial company to make the problem go away, go 
to an open source solution.  If you're going to be made to 'deal with 
it', then you might as well have access to all the guts, all the tools, 
the whole thing yourself.  Otherwise you wind up working for free making 
someone else's commercial product better, and who knows if the next 
release will break your fix or not.   No, if you are being forced to 
deal with a problem in the guts of commercial software yourself, you 
aren't getting any value and the answer is find out whether an open 
source version is solid enough and if it is go with that.  Might was 
well learn 'everything' about something you can compile yourself if it 
comes down to that.  You pick up a lot of dubious skills though, for 
example I can now edit freeswitch transport protocols and the sip 
stack.  A thing I hope never to have to do....  Seriously whoever came 
up with RTP and SIP using a bezillion ports and the whole NAT 
nightmare.... arg.   Look how much of freeswitch is not dealing with 
telephone and talk issues,  but routing issues.  It's half a router itself.

This business of weaving together products made by various vendors:  
routers, soft phones, pstn-voip legacy boxen, freeswitch, routers,  
'guis on top of X', it's every bit as tough as programming.  In 
programming you control 'the world' and have a narrow focus.  This 
business of integrating lots of work by lots of folks, not for the timid.

On 10/23/2013 01:42 AM, Donny Hardyanto wrote:
>
> I am now practicing not using standard port because some hacks couple 
> month ago. It was quite bad, it cost thousand of dollars and we cannot 
> find the culprit IP address because the router ALG rewrites them and 
> there is no accessible log on the router.
>
> Donny
>
> On Oct 23, 2013 1:17 PM, "hcoin" <hcoin at quietfountain.com 
> <mailto:hcoin at quietfountain.com>> wrote:
>
>     Anthony and Donny, thanks for replying.
>
>     Putting a packet capture on the line revealed the problem to be a
>     combination of quirks in both linphone (windows version ignores fs
>     nonstandard destination port) and dns-forwarder (override of
>     foo.bar.com <http://foo.bar.com> fails if foo.bar.com
>     <http://foo.bar.com> is a cname on the public internet, not an A
>     record).  The call was coming in on the external profile because
>     the dns forwarder was letting the resolution go to the public
>     internet and so the local systems were sending out to the router,
>     which sent it back in to... the external interface.   However, I
>     do now know how to watch calls pass through freeswitch and have
>     read most of the source code in the sofia endpoint, nta, nua,
>     etc.  etc... and had lots of fun with gdb stepping around watching
>     the packets flow.
>
>     The main lession I think is worth sharing is this:   Use 5060 for
>     sip.  If you are thinking of various profiles using the same
>     address but different ports on the one hand, or on the other hand
>     using ip aliases so each profile uses the 'standard' ports but a
>     different ip--- go with the ip alias approach.    So in
>     /etc/network/interfaces , supposing your main nic is eth0:
>
>     iface eth0 inet dhcp   <-- or whatnot on your system>
>      ..
>       post-up ifup eth0:1
>       pre-down ifdown eth0:1
>     ..
>
>
>     iface eth0:1 inet static
>         address <something unique on the lan>
>         netmask <etc.>
>
>     Problems all melted away as if they never were.
>
>     Thanks again for trying to help!   I even bought the freeswitch
>     book.  Ka-Ching for someone on this list...
>
>
>
>     On 10/22/2013 06:38 PM, Anthony Minessale wrote:
>>
>>     Did you change all the fields in the new profile you duplicated
>>     that were relevant to the name like name...
>>
>>     I usually cp internal.xml new.xml then edit new.xml and global
>>     replace internal with new right off the bat.
>>
>>     You might find your mistake faster if you backup and revert to
>>     default sip profiles from sample and slowly make changes again.
>>
>>     On Oct 22, 2013 1:04 AM, "hcoin" <hcoin at quietfountain.com
>>     <mailto:hcoin at quietfountain.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         This has been a really frustrating problem, I'm sure the
>>         answer is
>>         simple but I just can't see it.
>>
>>         I had several extensions registered to the internal profile,
>>         sending
>>         calls out the external profile to a sip-pstn gateway, all
>>         seemed fine.
>>
>>         Then created another internal profile, using a different sip
>>         port on the
>>         same lan address, because of 'no device left behind' and NAT
>>         issues..
>>
>>         All seemed well, all the phones register normally. Looking at the
>>         databases in FS they all show the proper ports, the proper
>>         domains, etc.
>>
>>         However, every single call gets picked up as a new call via
>>         sophia/external/... and it hits the public dialplan normally
>>         -- except
>>         that's the wrong plan, it should hit the default plan and be
>>         identified
>>         as sofia/internal/.... and so forth.
>>         2013-10-22 00:31:11.001600 [NOTICE] switch_channel.c:1034 New
>>         Channel
>>         sofia/external/hcoin at pbx.foobar.com
>>         <mailto:hcoin at pbx.foobar.com>
>>         [28ed125a-3adb-11e3-9cc1-cbb8efb09b83]
>>
>>         What could possibly be the reason phones registered on the
>>         internal
>>         profile have their new calls identified as sophia/external
>>         and don't hit
>>         the correct plan?  Both the phones and the freeswitch are on
>>         the same
>>         subnet.  This should be so vanilla.  What am I missing?
>>
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