A week or two back I signed up at New Zealand's 2talk on the free plan to try out some funky VOIP services ... you get a free New Zealand "mobile" phone and fax number and a range of services, voice mail, call forwarding, fax mailbox etc, I'm planning to use it next time I'm on holiday/business to avoid exorbitant roaming charges. Tried out the call forwarding to my mobile, worked fine.
Just tried to call out from my laptop with X-Lite and the call didn't initiate, just got error "request timeout" and a pretty female voice saying "the other party is busy" or something like that.
I switched on the XLite diagnostic log and saw:
[07-07-22]21:07:03.059 | Info | RESIP:DUM | "Got: SipResp: 408 tid=blahblah cseq=INVITE / 1 from(wire)" |Quick surf identified Zone Alarm as the culprit blocking port 5060. I couldn't work out quickly how to setup my Zone Alarm (free version) to open port 5060, so here's an alternative.
[07-07-22]21:07:03.060 | Info | RESIP:DUM | "Failure: error response: SipResp: 408 tid=blahblah cseq=INVITE / 1 from(wire)" |
Instead of opening port 5060, you can add the 2talk server to your trusted zone.
If you make a "failed" call then open up the ZoneAlarm Control Center, click Alerts and Logs, you'll see a Blocked (under Action Taken) Incoming (under Direction) with a source IP something like 202.180.xxx.yyy :5060. Right click on that line and choose Add to Zone: Trusted.
Note that making this change allows whatever your trusted zone settings are to/from the 2talk server. And 2talk may have more servers or change them, so you may need to do this again.
Voila... outgoing calls should now work.
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