asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Asterisk on 64 bit... and testing e164.org

Dear Duane:

Thanks for the steer (presently I route calls to 1800 via iaxtel, but 
I'll turn that off for that test)

I came up with a thought for an interesting e164 service last night - 
distributed custom ringtones, and custom announcements on a callerid 
lookup via enum. You'd be able to embed a

RINGTONE - an url pointing to either a ringtone definition or a wav file 
that contains (for example) a small part of beethoven's fifth
ANNOUNCEMENT - a similar url, pointing back to my server - me saying 
"Mike Taht"
VCARD - same

Add an asterisk agi to do the reverse lookup via enum, play the 
announcement "Mike Taht" + "is calling" - pushed into my
icecast server
- hmm

I just got on the e164 list and into this new level of technology, so I 
obviously have some catching up to do, and should just probably forward 
weird ideas like this to that list once I'm certified sane and caught up 
with reality.

I am curious if e164 will do dns delegation so that I could run my own 
dns for my enum subdomain (which, among other things, would let me play 
around with wierd ideas like this, and also allow split dns, so that 
calls from inside my firewall to my numbers would route to my pbx more 
simply)

and so on...

have a good conference!

Mike Taht wrote:
> Thanks for the steer (presently I route calls to 1800 via iaxtel, but 
> I'll turn that off for that test)
I believe iaxtel routes your call through the same service...
> RINGTONE - an url pointing to either a ringtone definition or a wav file 
> that contains (for example) a small part of beethoven's fifth
This is more a phone specific thing then an asterisk thing, unless 
you're using the asterisk console I guess...
> Add an asterisk agi to do the reverse lookup via enum, play the 
> announcement "Mike Taht" + "is calling" - pushed into
my icecast server
> - hmm
We already insert names/info into DNS and have coded up an 
app_txtcidname patch which was included in asterisk to pull this 
information up, I'm guessing what you want to do shouldn't be too
difficult.

We also have a large number of geographical exchange information stored 
under the *.cc.e164.org enum zone.
> I am curious if e164 will do dns delegation so that I could run my own 
> dns for my enum subdomain (which, among other things, would let me play 
> around with wierd ideas like this, and also allow split dns, so that 
> calls from inside my firewall to my numbers would route to my pbx more 
> simply)
At this stage no, there is some problems when delegating NS records as 
this stops any smaller allocations from being looked up... In effect 
this could be used to block end users by others further up the food 
chain, which is the ITU's method currently being employed rather then 
allowing people to control their own allocations... If you could define 
the suggest a little more specifically we could even add it into our own 
system.

If you're thinking of a DNS update mechinism similar to dynamic 
services, and run windows, check out our update util...

http://www.e164.org/terry-20040608.zip

So far it the testing I've put it through it seems to work pretty well...

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Best regards,
  Duane

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