Summary:	ASTERISK-01991: sip.conf.sample explains how user and peer works incorrectly
Reporter:	Leif Madsen (lmadsen)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2004-07-11 15:35:04	Date Closed:	2004-09-25 02:37:49
Priority:	Trivial	Regression?	No
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Documentation
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Environment:		Attachments:	( 0) sip.conf.sample.diff-2
Description:	Asterisk parses a type=user by looking at the username and attempting to match it to the [section] title.  If nothing matches the [section] title then a type=peer is searched first for a matching username= followed second by matching the host=.  If either of these are matched then the defined context is used.  If nothing matched, then failover to default context defined in [global]
Comments:	By: Matthew Fredrickson (mattf) 2004-07-11 21:51:20 Actually that's not accurate either.  We're matching against From: By: Brian West (bkw918) 2004-07-12 00:28:16 I think thats what he ment. By: Olle Johansson (oej) 2004-07-12 04:46:29 "If nothing matches the [section] title then a type=peer is searched first for a matching username= followed second by matching the host=. " I can't find that we are matching username=, after find_user fails, we are looking for peers based on IP (host=). By: Leif Madsen (lmadsen) 2004-07-12 11:13:23 I have attached a revised version from everyone's comments. Olle:  I looked again, and you appear to be correct.  It only matches against host= from what I can tell as well. By: Olle Johansson (oej) 2004-07-12 11:18:50 I think that this kind of texts may not belong in the sip.conf file, but in a readme.sip (like readme.iax) where we explain all the details. What do you think? It doesn't make sense to add a lot of long explanations to the sample config, it makes it seem much more complicated than it is to get Asterisk configured and up and running... By: Brian West (bkw918) 2004-07-12 11:19:19 Its hard to say [here] is the username if username= isn't specified.  I see in find_peer it looks for name then ip/host.  username= isn't valid in a type=user. So I suspect that it will find [here] if username isn't specified?  I can' find the part of the code that clearly says that for sure.  But his example is alot more clear than any other. By: Olle Johansson (oej) 2004-07-12 11:22:10 bkw: find_peer only checks peer name if the first argument is provided (peer). If not, it only checks on IP address which is used when a call comes in. Find peer checks on [name] when we dial(SIP/peername). By: zoa (zoa) 2004-07-12 13:20:13 i think this is awfully complicated, can't this be made a little simpler ? :) By: Leif Madsen (lmadsen) 2004-07-13 07:46:06 Are we matching against From: or Contact: ? When I look at my SIP Debug, I don't see any From:, just Contact: By: Brian West (bkw918) 2004-07-16 10:58:24 chan_sip was fixed so the docs are correct in cvs.