Honestly I can't see all these NAT woes people speak of... I have * on a public ip .. sip.conf entries with nat=yes load em up.. and they work. So I have yet to see why everyone has SO MANY problems.
bkw On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Christopher Stephens wrote: > Hello everyone and welcome to my first post to the list! > > After studying for a couple of weeks, I finally built * for the first > time last night, and of course had the same SIP-behind-NAT woes that > plague all of us who use NATted connections. > It was therefore with no small joy that I read the fix for that that > Walter Snel proposed (q.v.: > http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/024968.html). > Since I currently have no zaptel hardware (though intend to get some > within the week) and thus use soft (SIP) clients on the same internal > network, the caveat that it would break internal SIP clients was, for me, > a reason to not yet implement his fix. I was examining chan_sip.c, trying > to think of a way to implement his 'Naturally it would be much better to > make this behavior:', and while bemoaning my pathetic C skills, thought > of another solution: > > -CUT HERE TO GET RIGHT TO THE POINT :P- > 1) Somehow (I use dynamic DNS) get a FQDN to point to the IP of the > outside of your NAT box; > 2) Implement W Snel's hardcoding as in the above URL, using your chosen > FQDN where, in his example, he has 213.84.4.39; > 3) On any internal machine with a SIP client, add an entry to the hosts > file that points your chosen FQDN to the * server's IP on the *internal* > network. > > What do you all think? > I won't have an opportunity to try to implement this until later this > evening, but at that time will post a follow-up to let you know how it > went. > > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
