asterisk users - Feb 2014 - Host = Dynamic in a Register Free Setup

Hello Everyone.

Our environment is a register free setup, and our phones are set as
host=dynamic.
The problem we are experiencing is for inbound calls:

Name/username Host                        Dyn Forcerport ACL Port
Status     Realtime
222/222                  (Unspecified)    D   N   A  0
Unmonitored Cached RT

So when we DIAL 222 we get:

WARNING[23103]: app_dial.c:2198 dial_exec_full: Unable to create
channel of type 'SIP' (cause 20 - Unknown)

My question is how can we get Asterisk to fill in the gaps (ie,
ipaddr, port) for a dynamic
peer in a register free environment.

Kind Regards,

Nick.

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:21:30 -0500
Nick Cameo <symack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our environment is a register free setup, and our phones are set as
> host=dynamic.
> The problem we are experiencing is for inbound calls:
> 
> Name/username Host                        Dyn Forcerport ACL Port
> Status     Realtime
> 222/222                  (Unspecified)    D   N   A  0
> Unmonitored Cached RT
> 
> So when we DIAL 222 we get:
> 
> WARNING[23103]: app_dial.c:2198 dial_exec_full: Unable to create
> channel of type 'SIP' (cause 20 - Unknown)
> 
> My question is how can we get Asterisk to fill in the gaps (ie,
> ipaddr, port) for a dynamic
> peer in a register free environment.
There are two ways for Asterisk to get the IP address for a peer:
1. Provide the address statically with host=<address> entries.
2. Allow the peer to register.

I don't believe there is any other way for Asterisk to get the IP
address.

What this means is, you can have a register-free environment or you
can have host=dynamic, but you can't have both.


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