Re: [Ekiga-list] could not connect to remote host

[yannick <sevmek free fr>]

Le mercredi 31 octobre 2007 �6:37 +0000, Hazel Russman a �it :
> > 
> >    1. Could not connect to remote host (Hazel
> > Russman)
> >    2. Re: Could not connect to remote host (yannick)
> > 
> > 
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:53:06 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: Hazel Russman <hazel_russman yahoo co uk>
> > Subject: [Ekiga-list] Could not connect to remote
> > host
> > To: ekiga-list gnome org
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> > 
> > I am having difficulty in getting ekiga working. I
> > have an account at ekiga.net and it appears to be
> > valid as I can log in there. But when I try the echo
> > test, I get first "Registration failed - timeout"
> > and
> > then "Could not connect to remote host".
> > 
> > My setup: I am using Linux pppoe behind a SMC
> > Barricade adsl router/modem. This has a built-in
> > firewall (configurable via the web browser) but I
> > have
> > not changed its default settings. As far as I can
> > see,
> > it is not doing any packet filtering or nat,
> > although
> > there are timing checks to prevent DoS attacks. The
> > ekiga configuration druid's nat test reported "open
> > nat". I normally have a simple iptables-based
> > firewall
> > on the computer itself but I flushed it away before
> > testing ekiga.
> > 
> > I have looked at the ekiga manual but have not found
> > anything that looks relevant (apparently this error
> > message is sometimes caused by a nat problem but not
> > with open nat).
> > 
> > I attach the transcript of a level-4 debug run
> > (slightly edited for privacy) which I hope will be
> > useful for pinpointing what is going wrong.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Hazel
> > 
> > 
> >      
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> > 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:31:57 +0100
> > From: yannick <sevmek free fr>
> > Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] Could not connect to
> > remote host
> > To: Ekiga mailing list <ekiga-list gnome org>
> > Message-ID: <1193679117 7000 7 camel achille>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Maybe this wont solve your issue, you're using a
> > *very* old version of
> > ekiga (2.0.1), we now are up to 2.0.11
> > 
> > Consider upgrading it.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Yannick
> > 
> > 
> Thanks, Yannick. but that's not so easy. I am using
> Ubuntu Dapper and this version is the latest that it
> recognises (at least for my present list of
> repositories). I notice that the version available
> from ekiga.org is for Feisty. Would that one actually
> run on Dapper if I installed it? Or would it be better
> to download source and build it myself? I have a
> little experience with building packages (though not
> on Ubuntu) but I don't want to do anything that
> involves upgrading libraries. You can really louse up
> your system doing that kind of thing!
> 

Hi,

You can try this repository:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ekiga?action=recall&rev=78#head-57385c7cf79361cbb4d7195b9f43c1bb33c1e94c
Regards,
Yannick

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