I am having issues also. I called them and I was told that they are doing upgrades on their network. Zac On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 04:55, Charlie Hedlin wrote:> I had my asterisk configuration working very well with broadvoice, but > it stopped working this afternoon. > > I plugged the Cisco 7960 phone I used for my origional signup (just a > few days before they offered generic BYOD) and it works fine. I did > notice it seems to do all of its comunication through > proxy.broadvoice.com (I used tcpdump). I have never contacted > broadvoice about using asterisk (it seems their support is busy enough), > and just downloaded the phones configuration file via tftp before the > phone did. > > Is anyone else having this problem? > > I read the messages about the failure a few days ago (as I experienced > it as well) where asterisk wasn't using the redundant servers. I did a > tcpdump on my asterisk traffic and it apeared to be using both addresses > for sip.broadvoice.com. I am running today's cvs head (but this failure > was present before, but I didn't run tcpdump then). > > Thank you, > Charlie > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040725/531fcca0/attachment.htm
I had my asterisk configuration working very well with broadvoice, but it stopped working this afternoon. I plugged the Cisco 7960 phone I used for my origional signup (just a few days before they offered generic BYOD) and it works fine. I did notice it seems to do all of its comunication through proxy.broadvoice.com (I used tcpdump). I have never contacted broadvoice about using asterisk (it seems their support is busy enough), and just downloaded the phones configuration file via tftp before the phone did. Is anyone else having this problem? I read the messages about the failure a few days ago (as I experienced it as well) where asterisk wasn't using the redundant servers. I did a tcpdump on my asterisk traffic and it apeared to be using both addresses for sip.broadvoice.com. I am running today's cvs head (but this failure was present before, but I didn't run tcpdump then). Thank you, Charlie
First, let me apologize for following up on my own message. I traced the connection the tftp configured 7960 phone was using and want to see how close I can make asterisk approximate this for the best reliability. The phone does an srv lookup for _sip._udp.proxy.broadvoice.com which returns proxy.lax.broadvoice.com and proxy.dca.broadvoice.com It then sends all requests to register for 5126920687@sip.broadvoice.com via BOTH proxies. If anyone would find the packet dump usefully please contact me off list. Thank you, Charlie Hedlin Charlie Hedlin wrote:> I had my asterisk configuration working very well with broadvoice, but > it stopped working this afternoon. > > I plugged the Cisco 7960 phone I used for my origional signup (just a > few days before they offered generic BYOD) and it works fine. I did > notice it seems to do all of its comunication through > proxy.broadvoice.com (I used tcpdump). I have never contacted > broadvoice about using asterisk (it seems their support is busy > enough), and just downloaded the phones configuration file via tftp > before the phone did. > > Is anyone else having this problem? > I read the messages about the failure a few days ago (as I experienced > it as well) where asterisk wasn't using the redundant servers. I did > a tcpdump on my asterisk traffic and it apeared to be using both > addresses for sip.broadvoice.com. I am running today's cvs head (but > this failure was present before, but I didn't run tcpdump then). > > Thank you, > Charlie > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
> I had my asterisk configuration working very well with broadvoice, but > it stopped working this afternoon. > > I plugged the Cisco 7960 phone I used for my origional signup (just a > few days before they offered generic BYOD) and it works fine. I did > notice it seems to do all of its comunication through > proxy.broadvoice.com (I used tcpdump). I have never contacted > broadvoice about using asterisk (it seems their support is busy enough), > and just downloaded the phones configuration file via tftp before the > phone did. > > Is anyone else having this problem?I just signed up with them yesterday and the config sheet they emailed me indicates the registrar IP is sip.broadvoice.com, and the proxy IP is proxy.broadvoice.com. However, for the last hour or so their site has been unreachable with an icmp destination unreachable coming from 199.232.42.62, which belongs to Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network in Quincy MA. Would guess either someone upgrading hardware or a failure near broadvoice. Rich
radamson@routers.com (Rich Adamson) writes:> However, for the last hour or so their site has been unreachable with > an icmp destination unreachable coming from 199.232.42.62, which belongs > to Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network in Quincy MA. Would guess either > someone upgrading hardware or a failure near broadvoice.I am having the same problem with sip.broadvoice.com. My asterisk /var/log/asterisk/messages has over 1200 lines of gripes about them starting at "Jul 25 16:49:40 (PDT)" and continuing to the present. Does broadvoice have a status page somewhere with real info on it. (Like what is causing this extended outage?) Ob-asterisk. I should really see how hard it would be to hack asterisk to register with all addresses if a hostname has multiple aliases. It seems that some of these outages could be weathered if asterisk were to keep tabs on all the sip servers a provider offered, and then actively uses whichever one was up and had the lowest round-trip-delay. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ openbsd amd64 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ftp/asterisk-openbsd35.patch
> However, for the last hour or so their site has been unreachable with > an icmp destination unreachable coming from 199.232.42.62, which belongs > to Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network in Quincy MA. Would guess either > someone upgrading hardware or a failure near broadvoice.I just spoke with their tech support (978-418-7300), and was told that their SIP server(s) were down, and that they are working on them.. FYI: The guy that answered the phone sounded like he had been there all night. In fact, I think it's the same guy I spoke with 9 hours ago when I called and was told that they were expieriencing problems, and the ETA was before morning to have them working again. I hope whatever their problem(s) are get resolved, as before their first outage last week, and now this one, I had been using them for about 1 month with Asterisk, and no problems! - Andre
I see the issue. Mine says "Request Sent" and just hangs there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <list+asterisk-users@lists.wsrcc.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:35 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again> > radamson@routers.com (Rich Adamson) writes: > > However, for the last hour or so their site has been unreachable with > > an icmp destination unreachable coming from 199.232.42.62, which belongs > > to Cambridge Entrepreneurial Network in Quincy MA. Would guess either > > someone upgrading hardware or a failure near broadvoice. > > I am having the same problem with sip.broadvoice.com. My asterisk > /var/log/asterisk/messages has over 1200 lines of gripes about them > starting at "Jul 25 16:49:40 (PDT)" and continuing to the present. > Does broadvoice have a status page somewhere with real info on it. > (Like what is causing this extended outage?) > > Ob-asterisk. I should really see how hard it would be to hack > asterisk to register with all addresses if a hostname has multiple > aliases. It seems that some of these outages could be weathered if > asterisk were to keep tabs on all the sip servers a provider offered, > and then actively uses whichever one was up and had the lowest > round-trip-delay. > > -wolfgang > -- > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ > openbsd amd64 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ftp/asterisk-openbsd35.patch > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com wrote:> > Has anyone had specific problems, or outages with VoicePulse? > > Brian > >Voicepulse Connect has had numerous outages over the past month or so. I've been down (that I've noticed) at least 5 different times. It was a similar issue to what Broadvoice is experiencing now. I don't recall being offline for quite this long, though. I'm down 12+ hours now with Broadvoice. Reid
David Hickman <> scribbled on Monday, July 26, 2004 9:12 AM:> I do not see why people want the unlimited option.Because some people truly do use a ton of time. My wife is on the phone so much that even with Nufone's low rates, it would cost me more per month to use rated service. So I use Broadvoice for the unlimited inbound and outbound in-state calling, and Nufone for long distance. We do so little long distance that flat rate doesn't make sense for us. But flat rate for local and inbound does.> An "unlimited" account only makes sense if you are using your VoIP > device to connect directly to the VoIP provider.Again, if you have a small volume of calls, or if you have alternate routes for a good majority of calls, then you are correct. For example, I use FWD's peer functionality to pass calls through to friends who have Vonage. That saves me quite a bit of long distance. But there are only a couple of friends that use Vonage, so I can't rely on that to route the majority of my calls.> So I pick Broadvoice after hearing how great they are. Now they > won't even come up. Figures....I know what you mean. They have been great, but these last couple of weeks I have had the same problems the others have. I just chalk it up to their low prices, and consider how much I am saving compared to my old POTS provider, which is $25 per month or more. Since I have a cell phone, I can deal with periodic outages. On the positive note, when I have called them, they have been very responsive on the support. At times I have gotten the voice mail, and I have always gotten a call back, even if they haven't had a fix yet. I appreciate the fact that my message was received and being attended to, rather than just ignored until the problem was resolved. Jeremy
David Hickman <> scribbled on Monday, July 26, 2004 10:20 AM:> My wife used to pay for alot of time until I put a bt100 at her > mothers and best friends house. :) >Problem is that none of her family members have broadband, otherwise that would be a great idea. Jeremy
Deon Rodden <> scribbled on Monday, July 26, 2004 10:05 AM:> I'm curious though, I'm paying $19.95 for unlimited local and long > distance. > Why would you choose to push your long distance calls out of NuFone > (or even VoicePulse Connect) if BroadVoice doesn't charge for long > distance?Because I am only using their $9.95 per month "in-state" plan, rather than their $19.95 per month "nationwide" plan. If you are not on the nationwide plan, they charge $.039 per minute for long distance. I do not make anywhere near the $10 per month difference in long distance calls. Therefore, it is cheaper for me to pay Nufone for the few minutes I actually use. It takes 500 minutes (a little over 8 hours) of long distance at Nufone's $.02 per minute rates to reach the $10 per month increase in price for the nationwide plan. Considering most months I have less than 30 minutes of long distance calling on my home phone, I am saving that $9+. Now if we have more friends move out of area, or start talking more to our family members that are out of the area, we may be better off by changing to the other plan. Since Broadvoice doesn't charge to change plans, we would only have to wait for the next billing cycle for it to kick in, and more than likely won't be much over the $10 in charges that month. Part of the low usage comes from the fact that I have free long distance on my cell phone. Since I hardly ever come close to using all 300 minutes of service each month, I generally just use my cell phone any time I need to make long distance. When FWD has their free calling enabled, that also helps to curb the need for toll calls. Jeremy
Steve Underwood <> scribbled on Monday, July 26, 2004 10:27 AM:> Duct tape applied to the mouth is cheaper, and is a more effective > noise reduction technique. These days people just go straight for the > high tech solution, and skip all the traditional technology, that > often gives superior performance. :-) >Yeah, THAT would fly over about as well as a lead baloon. Jeremy
> > BroadVoice IS down, it is NOT working... I have tried it like 2 > minutes ago just using my GrandStream and also with X-Lite and both > are > not working... > it refuses to register... and when I check the logs in > X-Lite, it's showing > 404 Not Found which means that the proxy is either not running or not > receiving connections... >Just an update. My outbound calls through * are working now. Still can't register though.
Broadvoice is not down. He is how to get it working: edit your /etc/hosts file to include the following. sip.broadvoice.com 147.135.8.128 That should fix it. We are allowing asterisk to connect only the that server for time being, Due to the fact that asterisk does not support outbound proxies. This only a temporary fix. Please, if anyone knows how to get asterisk to use outbound proxies please post it here. -James. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Chris Shaw Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:17 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Hedlin" <charlie@hedlin.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again> Broadvoice isn't down, it works fine, just not with Asterisk, which for > most of us (myself included) means they might as well be down, but I > believe we all went to their service knowing this wasn't truely > supported. I am starting to see why so many providers don't want to go > down this path, it has the tremendous potential to make them look bad.BroadVoice IS down, it is NOT working... I have tried it like 2 minutes ago just using my GrandStream and also with X-Lite and both are not working... it refuses to register... and when I check the logs in X-Lite, it's showing 404 Not Found which means that the proxy is either not running or not receiving connections... _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Jones" <jjones@broadvoice.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again> Broadvoice is not down. He is how to get it working: > > edit your /etc/hosts file to include the following. > > sip.broadvoice.com 147.135.8.128 > > > That should fix it. We are allowing asterisk to connect only the that > server for time being, Due to the fact that asterisk does not support > outbound proxies. This only a temporary fix. Please, if anyone knows howto> get asterisk to use outbound proxies please post it here. > > -James.ok did that, registration works now and outbound seems to work but DTMF is not being received by * anymore...
with the fix. insecure=very will not work. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Pyle Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:42 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again What worked for me: Adding to /etc/hosts: sip.broadvoice.com 147.135.0.128 Changing in BV friend/peer in sip.conf: insecure=very You may also choose to add deny/allow ACLs since BV won't authenticate against us anymore.> I agree -- When I went to BroadVoice, I told Peter outright that I know > Asterisk isn't officially supported, and once I got the system to > register, I'll leave them alone. Today I had a small billing issue to > take care of, so I just added "oh, by the way, any word on when Asterisk > will be back up?" -- I got an instant email-response and an hour later, > one of my lines is working already._______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004
will work on it -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Chris Shaw Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:54 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Jones" <jjones@broadvoice.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Broadvoice problems again> Broadvoice is not down. He is how to get it working: > > edit your /etc/hosts file to include the following. > > sip.broadvoice.com 147.135.8.128 > > > That should fix it. We are allowing asterisk to connect only the that > server for time being, Due to the fact that asterisk does not support > outbound proxies. This only a temporary fix. Please, if anyone knows howto> get asterisk to use outbound proxies please post it here. > > -James.ok did that, registration works now and outbound seems to work but DTMF is not being received by * anymore... _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/2004
Jeremy Hall wrote:> Steve Underwood <> scribbled on Monday, July 26, 2004 10:27 AM: > > >>Duct tape applied to the mouth is cheaper, and is a more effective >>noise reduction technique. These days people just go straight for the >>high tech solution, and skip all the traditional technology, that >>often gives superior performance. :-) >> > > > Yeah, THAT would fly over about as well as a lead baloon. > > Jeremylead balloons *fly* great perpendicular to the surface of the earth <G>.