There is no DNS functionality built into the IAXY, I am assuming you want to be able to home onto a SOHO site with a dynamic IPaddress. I have not been able to figure out a clean way to do theis (make it easy for the roaming sales-folk etc,) who will not have a high tolerance for running something like an IAXYPROV. You would need to somehow have an external fixed address which would redirect all of your traffic to the dynamic address, I have found no way to do this, your best bet is to pony up the extra cash for a fixed address (usually 3-4x the cost) I would love to hear if anyone has figured this one out, as I have 5 IAXY's which are not doing me much good at this point. Jim -----Original Message----- From: John Bohman [mailto:bohmanj@adcnoc.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:42 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] IAXY DNS possibilities?? Is there any way to hard code an ip in the IAXY then re-direct that ip to a dynamic ip via dns.. Some sort of ip forewarding...?? This is more of a networking question really but I'm sure there are a lot of DNS guru's out there that might be able to come up with something.. Thanks in advance.. JB _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:04 -0600, Richards, Jim wrote:> There is no DNS functionality built into the IAXY, I am assuming you want > to be able to home onto a SOHO site with a dynamic IPaddress. > > I have not been able to figure out a clean way to do theis (make it easy > for the roaming sales-folk etc,) who will not have a high tolerance for > running something like an IAXYPROV.While not solving your salesmen problem, for a soho environment you just need a machine running asterisk on the inside of the firewall. It doesn't have to be very much of a system. In fact that might be the perfect use for those linksys routers running linux. The use of an asterisk install closer to the IAXY eliminates several problems I have read about. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
I have been toying with the idea of checking out the windows port of the IAXYPROV and see if it could not be coaxed to look up my DYNDNS address and then IAXYPROV that address into the iaxy from a laptop/PC which is local to the remote user, (and hope I don't have to reboot my router too often.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: Steven Critchfield [mailto:critch@basesys.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:19 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] IAXY DNS possibilities?? On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:04 -0600, Richards, Jim wrote:> There is no DNS functionality built into the IAXY, I am assuming you want > to be able to home onto a SOHO site with a dynamic IPaddress. > > I have not been able to figure out a clean way to do theis (make it easy > for the roaming sales-folk etc,) who will not have a high tolerance for > running something like an IAXYPROV.While not solving your salesmen problem, for a soho environment you just need a machine running asterisk on the inside of the firewall. It doesn't have to be very much of a system. In fact that might be the perfect use for those linksys routers running linux. The use of an asterisk install closer to the IAXY eliminates several problems I have read about. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> You would need to somehow have an external fixed address which would > redirect all of your traffic to the dynamic address, I have found no way to > do this, your best bet is to pony up the extra cash for a fixed address > (usually 3-4x the cost) > > I would love to hear if anyone has figured this one out, as I have 5 IAXY's > which are not doing me much good at this point.I used the following solution: Since I was also using SIP, I had a cron job running to detect ip change and post new ip on DYNDNS.ORG (which won't do anything for iaxy but wait). Although this worked fine, phones like Grandstreams still had to be rebooted as they only do DNS upon boot. Good to know. For the IAXy, in the cron job, I created a new iaxyprov.conf file containing the new ip. Then I did a "manual" provision. Ok, I forgot one handy detail, my own home ip was static. However, travellers could use DDNS on the client end (buying domains is pretty cheap thses days.) The above system worked until I was finally able to get a static ip on the asterisk box.