19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
10:40 a.m.
Hello,
We have been using OpenSER for almost a year in a production system. So
far the only problem is that sometimes it stops processing the requests.
It does not happen very frequently, maybe every 10-15 days, sometimes it
is more, sometimes it is less. When it happens, the process is still
running, I can see it when I do "ps". Also netstat shows that it is
listening on port 5060. So everything looks normal, except that OpenSER
does not seem to process the requests. I use ngrep and I see that there
isn't a single packet being sent out. At that point the only thing that
cures the problem is to kill the process and start it again.
A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to solve the problem I upgraded from
1.0 to 1.1. It ran fine for several days but eventually the same thing
happened. I have no idea what to check for. Has anyone else seen this
problem? Is there anything I can do to figure this out?
The only solution that I can think of is to have OpenSER restarted every
24 hour or so. But I really do not want to end up there.
Thank you for any help
George
Disclaimer
The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential. It is intended solely
for the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended
recipient, or person responsible for delivering this information to the intended
recipient, please notify the sender immediately. Unless you are the intended recipient or
his/her representative you are not authorized to, and must not, read, copy, distribute,
use or retain this message or any part of it. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to
be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed,
arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses.
19 Oct
19 Oct
10:56 a.m.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:40, Papadopoulos Georgios wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to solve the
problem I upgraded from
1.0 to 1.1. It ran fine for several days but eventually the same thing
happened. I have no idea what to check for. Has anyone else seen this
problem? Is there anything I can do to figure this out?
I had a similar problem, where it looked like the openser slowed down, and
then stopped accepting calls.
It got so bad I had to setup sipsak to send a message to the server every
minute, and send a message to my phone when it didn't get a reply.
In the end it turned out it was being caused by the server not having a
working DNS setting configuired in its network settings. Even though i had
dns=no and rev_dns=no in the openser config, it seems something was trying to
look-up the aliases that that server itself was listening on, or the realm of
the clients...
It would run ok, but it was as though the multitude of failed dns lookups
would finally halt the system, or something...
Anyway, after setting-up dns properly it was fine.
Another time I had something similar where the server seemed to slow way down,
I had to lock-down the network card to 10mbit full-duplex. It was
autoselecting 100mbit half-duplex.
Hope that helps someone... sometime...
Richard.
12:40 p.m.
I too am running a number of openser servers in a production environment and
have experienced similar problems, but they normally came to the fore after
making a seemingly minor change in the config file (something silly like
adding a comment). I would then try to restart openser and it would fail to
start. I would then roll back to the previous working config and discover
that openser was refusing to accept that too. Needless to say, in a live
environment with customers screaming about service not working, this can be
quite stressful.
After a few of these experiences, I have come to realise that it seems as
though once loaded into memory and running, openser "caches" the config file
and also does not appear to re-check for changes in network conditions. As
such, for example, if your openser server is responsible for a particular
domain name mapped to say a certain public ip and you were to change the
public ip via your domain name registrar, your openser server will still be
running (i.e. you will see the running processes in *ps* and the pid file,
and *openserctl moni* will still show openser as running etc.) But then, if
you were to restart openser, it would then fail to start because the new
changes have now kicked in, and you could spend an age wondering what you
have changed.
In particular, I have had similar DNS problems as Richard mentioned above
though mine were not due to NIC speed settings as I always force the NIC
speed settings on the server using *ethtool*, since our network uses fixed
network speed settings. My DNS issues were more to do with the fact that we
were using internal DNS servers on our network which seemed to be affecting
how openser was resolving domain names. I will try and post if I find a
solution.
On 10/19/06, Richard Bennett <richard.bennett(a)skynet.be> wrote:
On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:40, Papadopoulos Georgios wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to solve the
problem I upgraded from
1.0 to 1.1. It ran fine for several days but eventually the same thing
happened. I have no idea what to check for. Has anyone else seen this
problem? Is there anything I can do to figure this out?
I had a similar problem, where it looked like the openser slowed down, and
then stopped accepting calls.
It got so bad I had to setup sipsak to send a message to the server every
minute, and send a message to my phone when it didn't get a reply.
In the end it turned out it was being caused by the server not having a
working DNS setting configuired in its network settings. Even though i had
dns=no and rev_dns=no in the openser config, it seems something was trying
to
look-up the aliases that that server itself was listening on, or the realm
of
the clients...
It would run ok, but it was as though the multitude of failed dns lookups
would finally halt the system, or something...
Anyway, after setting-up dns properly it was fine.
Another time I had something similar where the server seemed to slow way
down,
I had to lock-down the network card to 10mbit full-duplex. It was
autoselecting 100mbit half-duplex.
Hope that helps someone... sometime...
Richard.
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)openser.org
http://openser.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
6610
days inactive
6610
days old
2 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
Max Gregorian -
Papadopoulos Georgios -
Richard Bennett