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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Kevin Harwell


On Dec. 16, 2014, 4:22 p.m., Mark Michelson wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 16, 2014, 4:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> Repository: Asterisk
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> Description
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> Consider a situation where Asterisk is configured to register with a remote 
> server, and the configuration specifies bad authentication credentials. If 
> the remote server always responds to Asterisk's registration attempts with 
> 401 responses (each with a new nonce), then Asterisk will continue to 
> immediately send new registrations. Though this loop can be broken by 
> correcting the authentication credentials used for the outbound 
> registrations, it is a nuissance to be continuously throwing registrations 
> out and never stopping.
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> With this change, the registration state is altered to take into account if 
> we have already attempted authentication. If we have, and we receive another 
> 401/407 response, we will not re-attempt authentication. Instead, we will 
> fall through and treat the response as a registration failure. From there, 
> the usual logic regarding registration failures takes place.
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> Diffs
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>   /branches/13/res/res_pjsip_outbound_registration.c 429672 
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> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/4273/diff/
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> Testing
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> I used a SIPp scenario to emulate a registration server that always responds 
> to REGISTER requests with a 401 response. Without this patch, Asterisk would 
> continuously send new REGISTER requests when met with a 401 response. With 
> this patch, Asterisk sends its initial REGISTER, then retries with 
> authentication once, and then does not re-attempt with authentication any 
> longer. With auth_rejection_permananent enabled, Asterisk completely stops 
> attempting to register. With auth_rejection_permanent disabled, then Asterisk 
> waits the retry_interval before re-attempting to REGISTER, and the cycle 
> repeats.
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> I have also created a test on /r/4274 that ensures that this fix works as 
> expected.
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> Thanks,
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> Mark Michelson
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