[Blink] Intermittent registration failures against Asterisk

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

Hi Ben,

Found it.

Short answer: asterisk is misbehaving. Increase the registration time to 
90 seconds, Blink will effectively re-register after 45 seconds, which I 
guess its fine for your needs.

Long answer:

Blink will send the re-register at half of the proposed expiration 
process, that is, if you set it to 60 seconds it will re-register each 
30 seconds. This way we ensure you'll always be registered.

Asterisk keeps your first REGISTER transaction (though he understands it 
as a 'dialog') for 32 seconds, see the logs:

Scheduling destruction of SIP dialog 'reg///1-26391 at 192.168.99.53' in 
32000 ms (Method: REGISTER)

Now, if you send a new REGISTER *before* those 32 seconds have elapsed 
*and* if has a *different* tag in the From header, Asterisk will say the 
nonce is stalled but its not. However, if the From tag matches (I tested 
this with SIPp) registration goes fine.

The second registration is a whole new registration process so the From 
tag is changed by Blink.

I'll report the bug to Asterisk but in the meanwhile just raise the 
expiration time to 90 seconds, that will work.


Regards,

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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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