Re: [Ekiga-list] The man's got problems

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le dimanche 28 septembre 2008 à 12:10 -0400, Ryan Hendrickson a écrit :
> At 2008-09-28 18:03+0200, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> sent:
> 
> > Le dimanche 28 septembre 2008 à 11:43 -0400, Ryan Hendrickson a écrit :
> >> At 2008-09-28 11:32-0400, Ryan Hendrickson <ryan hendrickson alum mit edu> sent:
> >>
> >>> At 2008-09-28 17:26+0200, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> sent:
> >>>
> >>>>  The problem is this :
> >>>>  2008/09/28 10:22:28.272   0:04.384      StunDetector:0xb3c04b90 STUN
> >>>>  STUN server 83.103.82.85:3478 unexpectedly went offline.
> >>>>
> >>>>  In one of the logs, it detects symmetric NAT.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Is there something specific to your NAT router ? Don't you get a popup
> >>>>  telling you there is a NAT problem ?
> >>>
> >>> My computer is connected directly to my cable modem, and iptables -L -t nat
> >>> is empty, so I'm baffled as to how Ekiga thinks I'm being NAT'd.  I don't get
> >>> any popups.
> >>
> >> Oh, hold on.  I just restarted Ekiga and now I get the enable port
> >> forwarding manually popup.  I swear I haven't seen this before...
> >>
> >> Hmmm.  On experimentation, this popup appears about one time in three
> >> whenever I restart.
> >>
> >> Okay.  I'm still confused since, as I mentioned, I don't have a router
> >> between me and the modem.  I guess it could be that the modem is also a
> >> router?  (Unlikely; my IP address isn't on a subnet.)  Or that my ISP is
> >> blocking SIP ports? (More likely, but then how was Ekiga working before?)
> >>
> >> Any tips on how to diagnose this?
> >
> > If you type ifconfig, do you see a public or a private address ?
> 
> Public.  It matches what external machines report my address to be.

OK, I have a workaround to make things work.

gconftool-2 -s /apps/ekiga/general/nat/stun_server "" --type=string

There is nevertheless a bug somewhere, I'll investigate.
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