[VoIP] Firewall logs & status check results

[Steph Kerman]

John,

Strictly speaking, the system was not actually hung as I understand the 
term.   Its connection to the outside world was cut off by a failure of 
the ISP's equipment and hence the broadband connection.  Perhaps that's 
a distinction without a difference as far as other * boxes attempting to 
connect to it are concerned.

I suppose the lack of separate timeouts could be corrected if someone 
modified the * source code but perhaps the benefit is not worth the 
trouble of propagating the modifications forward with each new release 
of *.  Call completion is pretty slow by present day PSTN standards and 
I am used to that so if I perceived it as a no-connect and started 
stabbing around to see whether it would respond to additional digits it 
must have been a pretty long time.  So perhaps the effort of a separate 
timeout would be justified.

Steph

John R. Covert wrote:
> Steph,
>
>   
> You were calling through my portal to a system that was hung. It was 
> not returning anything at all.
>
> So you needed to wait for the timeout, which unfortunately is the same 
> as the timeout to allow someone to actually answer a
> phone. I wish there were two separate timeouts, but when systems 
> connect autonomously rather than by registering with each other, each 
> connection has to make a full attempt to connect.
>
> /john