<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Registrations work by the client sending a REGISTER to the server, which returns 401 to challenge and client resends REGISTER with the authentication details.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The register has an expiry time. To remain registered the client must reREGISTER within this time, and each REGISTER has its own 401 authentication (to prevent replay attacks).</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">What you're seeing is a log message each time the registration is renewed. That's why you still see it even though FS is apparently idle.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The log message really is only informative. It logs at WARNING level so that you can use fail2ban while only logging serious messages so you don't get massive log files.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">FS will log both the initial REGISTER/401 then at the 2nd REGISTER whether it succeeds or fails. Both are required to detect bots looking to break into an insecure or DDOS a SIP server, since the client might never send the 2nd REGISTER.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If you are not using fail2ban and want quieter logs, set the log-auth-failures param to false on the relevant Sofia profile. Add it if it doesn't exist.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">mod_fail2ban provides native integration without having to log these messages for fail2ban to detect. If you use it you'll probably still need to set the above param. (Disclaimer: I haven't used the module).</span></div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On 27 Dec 2012, at 14:44, Archana Venugopan <<a href="mailto:a.venugopan@mundio.com">a.venugopan@mundio.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>
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color:#1F497D">Thanks. If there is no activity for a while then calls drops out and I need to re-start the FS. I also see these messages frequently after each call and after
registration and while FS is idle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">Am not sure why is this happening.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">I keep getting those messages every 5 mins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">Archana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 27 December 2012 12:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Archana Venugopan<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] repeated registration messages in logs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is just your SIP client (softphone etc) sending keep alive/SIP re-register messages. You can normally adjust this in the settings of your client.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I find setting "reregister every 300 seconds" normally works ok for me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 27 December 2012 12:40, Archana Venugopan <<a href="mailto:a.venugopan@mundio.com" target="_blank">a.venugopan@mundio.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">After registering the phones successfully I am getting the below message continuously every few seconds in my logs and this is filling up the logs and freeswitch goes down sometimes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Can someone please tell me why I keep getting this message every few seconds? I have another server and there I don’t see this issue.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2012-12-27 12:37:44.714558 [WARNING] sofia_reg.c:1484 SIP auth challenge (REGISTER) on sofia profile 'internal' for [<a href="mailto:Abarajit@vectonecloud.com" target="_blank">Abarajit@vectonecloud.com</a>]
from ip 192.168.2.205<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2012-12-27 12:41:58.744557 [WARNING] sofia_reg.c:1484 SIP auth challenge (REGISTER) on sofia profile 'internal' for [<a href="mailto:sana@vectonecloud.com" target="_blank">sana@vectonecloud.com</a>]
from ip 192.168.2.48<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Archana<o:p></o:p></p>
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