Re: [Ekiga-list] Connection Issues

[Dave Koelmeyer <davekoelmeyer me com>]

On 11/07/11 02:10 AM, Jonathan Daily wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to use Ekiga (Arch Linux 64bit) as an alternative to Skype. I have set up a sip account on Ekiga.net, and registered the account inside of Ekiga. The program will tell me that the account is registered, but will not connect to any of the test calls. I have tried adding the NAT settings to my router to no avail. I'm hoping that I have just missed something obvious. I ran a debug as per the wiki, which can be found at:

http://pastebin.com/00Sn12t3

Does anyone know what my issue is?

Hi Jonathan,

Without looking at the debug output (I'm not a developer) but attempting the echo test myself it appears to be down - yet again. I'm afraid it has become pretty unreliable, and in my experience I'm hitting about problems 50 percent of the time I want to perform an echo test. The amount of work an unreliable test call service generates is frustrating, from folks such as you and me and new users who assume perfectly reasonably enough it might be a configuration issue.

What you could do is register for a SIP account at something like Sip2Sip: https://mdns.sipthor.net/register_sip_account.phtml

Calling their echo test (sip:4444 sip2sip info) works fine from Ekiga at the moment - at least this way you can rule out NAT traversal issues and the like. If you want to attempt a test call Ekiga.net to Ekiga.net, feel free to contact me off list.

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Dave Koelmeyer
http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz