---
title: "Update a SIP trunk"
method: PATCH
path: "/v1/voice/trunks/{trunk_id}"
tags: ["voice-trunks"]
---

# Update a SIP trunk

`PATCH /v1/voice/trunks/{trunk_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/voice/trunks/{trunk_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Updates a SIP trunk's `name`, access control (`ip_acls`, `allowed_api_key_ids`), and Digest algorithm offer (`digest_algorithms`). Omitted fields stay unchanged; each list, when present, replaces the previous list wholesale. An empty body or invalid list entry returns a 422 `validation_error`; a trunk outside the workspace returns a 404 `not_found_error`.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string
- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Request body

- VoiceTrunkUpdate: A change to the trunk's directions, name, access control, and Digest algorithm offer. Every field is optional. An omitted field is left unchanged. The `ip_acls`, `allowed_api_key_ids`, and `digest_algorithms` fields each replace their whole list when present. Send an empty array to clear one. This lets you commit the trunk's entire access configuration in one update. A direction has to be enabled before its settings can be set, but one update can do both: enable a direction and send its configuration together.
  - `name` string: A human-readable label for this SIP trunk. Mutable, and distinct from the generated wire domain.
  - `outbound_enabled` boolean: Whether this trunk may place calls. Turning it off stops the trunk admitting call attempts at the next call setup and leaves its connection and authentication settings stored, so turning it back on restores a working trunk. Omit the field to leave it unchanged.
  - `inbound_enabled` boolean: Whether this trunk may receive calls. Turning it off resets number routes that use this trunk to reject incoming calls. Turning it back on does not restore those routes. The gateways remain configured. Omit the field to leave it unchanged.
  - `media_bypass` boolean: Whether we take ourselves out of the audio path for calls we forward to this trunk. Turning it on takes effect at the next call setup and leaves calls already up untouched. It is an inbound setting, so the trunk must have `inbound_enabled` on; one update can do both. While it is on we cannot record those calls, report their audio quality, or end one because its audio stopped, and your equipment must be reachable for audio from the public internet. Turning it off puts us back in the path at the next call setup. Omit the field to leave it unchanged.
  - `ip_acls` VoiceTrunkIPACLCreate[]: Replaces the trunk's entire IP allow list. When present, the allow list is set to exactly these CIDR blocks: ranges not listed are removed and new ones are added. Send an empty array to clear the list, turning IP filtering off. Omit the field to leave the allow list unchanged.
    - `cidr` string, required: IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR block to allow. Use /32 for a single IPv4 address or /128 for a single IPv6 address.
    - `description` string: Optional human-readable label for this ACL entry.
  - `allowed_api_key_ids` APIKeyID[]: Replaces the trunk's entire set of allowed API keys. When present, exactly these keys may authenticate the trunk over SIP Digest. Each key you ADD must belong to this workspace and hold `voice` at write level; a key that does not is refused and the whole update is rolled back. A key already on the list that has since lost the permission or expired does not block the update, so you can keep editing the trunk while you put its permission back. A non-empty list turns API-key authentication on; send an empty array to turn it off. Omit the field to leave the allowed keys unchanged.
  - `digest_algorithms` VoiceSIPDigestAlgorithm[]: Replaces the Digest hash algorithms this trunk offers, in the order they should be offered. Send `["MD5"]` for a PBX that only implements MD5 and rejects or ignores a challenge offering SHA-256 first. Send an empty array to return to the default of `["SHA-256", "MD5"]`. The offer is never empty, because a trunk that offered nothing could not be authenticated at all. Narrowing the list also narrows what the trunk accepts: an answer using an algorithm no longer offered is rejected. Takes effect on the next call setup; no credential is re-issued. Omit the field to leave the offer unchanged.
  - `session_credentials_enabled` boolean: Whether a session credential may be used to connect to this trunk from a web browser, the CLI or MCP. Off by default; turning it on does not change what the allow lists admit, and turning it off stops those connections at the next call setup without re-issuing anything. Omit the field to leave it unchanged.

## Response `200`

Updated SIP trunk.

- VoiceTrunk: A SIP trunk's identity and access-control settings.
  - `id` string, required
  - `workspace_id` string, required
  - `name` string, required: A human-readable label for this SIP trunk. Mutable, and distinct from the generated wire domain.
  - `domain` string, required: Full SIP address for this trunk, generated as `{trunk-id}.trunk.{region}.sip.bird.com`. This is the trunk's identity, so configure your PBX or SIP client to send calls to this address. It is derived from the trunk id and cannot be chosen or changed.
  - `outbound_enabled` boolean, required: Whether this trunk may place calls: your PBX connects to us to dial out. Off on a new trunk. While it is off the trunk refuses every call attempt no matter what its allow lists say, and the connection and authentication settings below have no effect. Set `outbound_enabled` through the trunk update operation.
  - `inbound_enabled` boolean, required: Whether this trunk may receive calls: we dial the addresses you declared, for the numbers this trunk answers. Off on a new trunk. Turning it off resets number routes that use this trunk to reject incoming calls. Turning it back on does not restore those routes. Set `inbound_enabled` through the trunk update operation.
  - `media_bypass` boolean, required: Whether we take ourselves out of the audio path for calls we forward to this trunk: your equipment and the originating carrier exchange audio directly, and only the call signalling passes through us. Off by default. It applies to inbound calls alone (calls this trunk places are always carried through us, whatever this says). While it is on we cannot record those calls, report their audio quality, or end one because its audio stopped. Your equipment must be reachable for audio from the public internet. Set `media_bypass` through the trunk update operation.
  - `ip_acls` VoiceTrunkIPACL[], required: The trunk's IP allow list. IP filtering is active whenever this has at least one entry: calls admitted through the allow lists must come from those CIDR ranges. This restriction does not apply to session credentials when `session_credentials_enabled` is true. An empty list means no IP restriction. Replace the whole `ip_acls` list through the trunk update operation.
    - `id` string, required
    - `trunk_id` string, required
    - `cidr` string, required: IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR block that is allowed to send SIP traffic to this trunk.
    - `description` string, nullable: Optional human-readable label for this ACL entry.
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `allowed_api_key_ids` APIKeyID[], required: The API keys allowed to authenticate this trunk over SIP Digest. A key must hold `voice` at write level and be neither revoked nor expired to authenticate. `ineligible_api_key_ids` names the entries that currently cannot. A nonempty list enables API-key authentication, limited to its eligible keys. An empty list means no API-key authentication. A trunk with empty `ip_acls` and `allowed_api_key_ids` lists accepts nothing when `session_credentials_enabled` is false. Replace the whole `allowed_api_key_ids` list through the trunk update operation.
  - `ineligible_api_key_ids` APIKeyID[], required: The entries in `allowed_api_key_ids` that cannot authenticate this trunk right now because the key lacks `voice` at write level, has expired, or was revoked. The bindings remain until you remove them from the trunk. Restoring `voice` at write level makes a key eligible again if it is still unexpired and unrevoked, without changing its secret or trunk binding. Empty when every allowed key can authenticate.
  - `digest_algorithms` VoiceSIPDigestAlgorithm[], required: The Digest hash algorithms this trunk offers, in the order they are offered. We send one challenge line per algorithm and your PBX answers with the first it supports, so the order decides what most equipment picks. Always populated: a trunk with no explicit setting reports the default, `["SHA-256", "MD5"]`. A trunk answering with an algorithm that is not on this list is rejected, so narrowing the list also narrows what the trunk accepts. Replace `digest_algorithms` through the trunk update operation.
  - `session_credentials_enabled` boolean, required: Whether a session credential may be used to connect to this trunk from a web browser, the CLI or MCP, alongside whatever the allow lists admit. Off by default. It grants nothing on its own: a call still has to present a credential issued to this workspace, and each one expires within minutes. Set `session_credentials_enabled` through the trunk update operation.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `409`: Resource conflict
- `412`: Precondition failed
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error
- `503`: The service is temporarily unavailable. If `Retry-After` is present, wait for that delay before retrying; otherwise, retry with exponential backoff. Reuse the same idempotency key and request when retrying a mutation.

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