asterisk users - Feb 2005 - How to monitor externip automatically?

Hello list,

I am behind a NAT router and therefore need to have externip= in
sip.conf. Whenever the isp resets its DHCP server, I have to change
the setting in order to make Asterisk work.

Is there a way to make Asterisk get the external ip automatically in
case I am able to do it from wherever I am?

Thor Atle Rustad

Have you considered one of the dynamic DNS services, (e.g. 
http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/)?  Looking through the Wiki it 
seems that there is no requirement to use an actual IP address for 
externip=, in fact I found one posting that explicitly discouraged their 
use.

Richard

Thor Atle Rustad wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>I am behind a NAT router and therefore need to have externip= in
>sip.conf. Whenever the isp resets its DHCP server, I have to change
>the setting in order to make Asterisk work.
>
>Is there a way to make Asterisk get the external ip automatically in
>case I am able to do it from wherever I am?
>
>Thor Atle Rustad
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