Hi, I am hating my ISP (comcast) and thinking about switching. One of my options seems pretty good, but doesn't offer a static IP (maybe they will for extra $). Is anyone out there running an asterisk server via dynamic DNS and is this a workable setup? I know my remote ATA's are fine with doing the name lookups, but I wonder if the asterisk server itself will happy behind a nat and a dynamic IP? SIP.conf seems to clearly state that externhost isn't a good way to go and externip is recommended for production environments... This seems like it's a problem for dynamic DNS? Thanks for any experiences and or thoughts on this. Marty
Martin Joseph wrote:> Hi, > > I am hating my ISP (comcast) and thinking about switching. One of my > options seems pretty good, but doesn't offer a static IP (maybe they > will for extra $). > > Is anyone out there running an asterisk server via dynamic DNS and is > this a workable setup? > > I know my remote ATA's are fine with doing the name lookups, but I > wonder if the asterisk server itself will happy behind a nat and a > dynamic IP? > > SIP.conf seems to clearly state that externhost isn't a good way to go > and externip is recommended for production environments... This seems > like it's a problem for dynamic DNS? > > Thanks for any experiences and or thoughts on this.I was running Trixbox on a dynamic IP behind a NAT and it worked fine. Use something like DynDNS to point your domain name to you IP. Note, SIP is a PITA to configure behind NAT/Firewalls, as you have to open so many ports. IAX is much easier. Regards, Austin. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060922/c06c9c63/signature.pgp
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:17 -0700, Martin Joseph wrote:> Hi, > > I am hating my ISP (comcast) and thinking about switching. One of my > options seems pretty good, but doesn't offer a static IP (maybe they > will for extra $). > > Is anyone out there running an asterisk server via dynamic DNS and is > this a workable setup? > > I know my remote ATA's are fine with doing the name lookups, but I > wonder if the asterisk server itself will happy behind a nat and a > dynamic IP? > > SIP.conf seems to clearly state that externhost isn't a good way to go > and externip is recommended for production environments... This seems > like it's a problem for dynamic DNS? >That is the way my server has been working for the past two years. Getting a static IP address in Mexico is very expensive so most of my customers use dynamic DNS to contact their servers. -- Carlos Chavez Prats Director de Tecnolog?a Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de M?xico S.A. de C.V. Tel: +52-55-91169161 Ext 2001 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060922/2dbf3954/attachment.pgp