And that is the problem I am having to try and get a working SipX test environment.... Apparently it is dependent on having a working DNS environment up.
Johannes On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Jim Van Meggelen <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks to all for the helpful feedback. > > I don't think we have the basis for a talk, yet, but it's good information > regardless, and I appreciate it. > > Jim > > > > On 2/18/2010 6:11 PM, Jim Van Meggelen wrote: > >> I'm hoping to learn a bit more about DNS. >> >> I get it in theoretical terms, but the devil is in the details. >> >> Let's say I have my website atwww.mycompany.com >> >> The MX record points to my email provider somehow, and that seems to be >> easy enough to set up. >> >> But how about having SIP calls to go to my PBX (which may or may not have >> a hostname)? >> >> There are a few things that I can't quite get the hang of: >> >> 1. should I give my PBX a hostname such as pbx.mycompany.com? >> 2. should I make that a zone, and run a DNS server on my PBX? >> 3. how do I getsip:[email protected] <getsip%[email protected]> to >> go tosip:[email protected] <tosip%[email protected]>? >> 4. should I just have the main DNS handle sip requests with the IP >> address of my PBX, and forget about the zone/server pbx.mycompany.com? >> 5. should I be giving all my devices a hostname? do I allow those >> hostnames to be handled by DNS? what about NAT and security? >> >> I'm not looking for answers to all this in an email per se, but more >> asking if somebody is willing to do a talk for us that might help >> demystify all this? >> >> BTW, even though I am clearly not qualified to speak on this topic, I'm >> a pretty quick study, I have experience with both speaking and training, >> and so would be more than willing to do some of the grunt work and >> presentation work necessary to present this to the group, if that helps >> any of you who have the know-how, but perhaps aren't comfortable >> speaking to an audience. >> >> >> > -- > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [email protected] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
