Re: [Ekiga-list] Connection Issues

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 12/07/11 10:53, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> 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

You are right, Dave, in the output above the problem is that echo test 
is down.

> 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.

I agree with you.  In August/September Damien should update Kamailio 
server on ekiga.net, and hopefully this will fix the echo test breaks.

> 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.

Good idea.

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Eugen