What happens if you are mobile and your address changes?
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Stuart Gathman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/20/2017 06:04 AM, PICI.1251 wrote: > > Hi to everybody, > I would like to know if, with Linphone, there is a way to find other > users on the internet, like I can do with Skype. > > For federated services that relay SIP to work around IP4, this depends on > the service. For instance, ekiga.net has a user lookup. You first have > to know what service said person is using. Skype is worse - it not only > can't lookup users not on Skype, it can't connect you when you do find a > sip/iax/facetime/gtalk/oovoo/other VOIP address for a party. All the SIP > services can talk to each other (for the most part). > > For decentralized SIP (use IP6 and just connect directly to the other > party), DNS or Namecoin easily provide a directory - but no one is forcing > everyone to use the same standard/convention, or even to publish their IP > at all. Lot's of people have a web page with their sip address - you can > just google to find those. Skype and many SIP services will connect you > to POTS for a fee. If you can find the telephone number of your party, > call them up and ask for their sip address. > > I've found that email serves as a lowest common denominator. Once you > find their email, ask them what their sip address is. > > I've gotten the most buy in with the telephone model. Your IP6 address is > your "phone number". Especially when it is a cryptographic mesh ip, such > as cjdns (so that it stays with a device regardless of what ICANN internet > connection it is currently using and is authenticated). > > Ask your friend for their "phone number", and add it to your local > directory - just like with a smartphone. > > For example, if your friend [email protected] is on cjdns, and tells you > their ip is fc1c:d462:9ce6:0c52:4346:0965:a67d:ef22 (dummy ip with > private key discarded), you would add the following to your linphone > directory: > > sip:anne@[fc1c:d462:9ce6:0c52:4346:0965:a67d:ef22] > > NOTE, at least on linphone-3.6.1, you have to switch between IPv6 mode for > direct connections, and IP4 mode for federated sip relay services, and also > switch your identity (which does not automatically switch when switching IP > mode). This is annoying, and I hope that a convenient way to switch > appears soon - or else support for both at the same time! > > _______________________________________________ > Linphone-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users > > -- Sincerely, Russell Treleaven sip:[email protected]
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