Re: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Vahan Yerkanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:31, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: I've got this low-ping 100%-up dsl connection between two asterisk 1.2.7.1 servers. And oftentimes one of them would declare its opposite UNREACHABLE.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you are supposed to realize that a) this software cost you nothing. Not one penny. b) this software is user-supported. This means that in order to make it better you need to help. and c) we don't owe you anything. Not a thing. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you specifying the remote Asterisk box by IP or by hostname. If by hostname, then specify it by IP. Asterisk's DNS lookup support has issues. In the trunk peer details in AMP I'd set host= to a hostname. I've switched it to IP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Asterisk has a DNS lookup failure it will never retry that lookup. Never meaning until the next reload command is issued, or until the next restart command is issued, or until the next time the OS reboots, or until the next time asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Asterisk has a DNS lookup failure it will never retry that lookup. Never meaning until the next reload command is issued, or until the next restart command is issued, or until the next time the OS reboots, or until the next

[Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ failure: the plot thickens

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Engleward
Please please, if anybody has experience using /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ with SIP and IAX2 trunks, please explain what's going wrong here. If I make the file 2.call containing: Channel: SIP/sipphone MaxRetries: 1 RetryTime: 5 WaitTime: 10 Context: outgoingtest Extension: 1747555 Priority:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ failure: the plot thickens

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Engleward
Tim Panton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are misunderstanding the way call files work. They connect _2_ ends, here's what the wiki says: [snip] So the _channel_ has to be the whole thing - including the number 'far' you want to dial the _extension_ and _context_ are the 'near'

Re: [Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ failure: the plot thickens

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Engleward
Tim Panton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you are misunderstanding the way call files work. They connect _2_ ends, here's what the wiki says: [snip] So the _channel_ has to be the whole thing - including the number 'far' you want to dial the _extension_ and _context_ are the 'near'

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Random 1-way audio on IAX2 Connections

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Tim Panton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using IAX2, you don't need to port forward the ports. Just have PBX2 register _often_ and that will keep a mapping in your router. Where is this set? Is this the minregexpire and maxregexpire settings in iax.conf, which default to 60

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How would you go about calling a list of numbers and 'speaking' a message?

2006-05-03 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Angus Comber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been asked by a client to process a list of telephone numbers. Asterisk should call each number in turn and if the recipient of the call answers, play a message - eg from a wav. How would I go about doing that? Make your message as

Using qualify=yes guarantees failure on iax2 behind NAT (was: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Using frequent keepalives to eliminate need forNAT port forwarding?)

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Damon Estep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qualify=yes will send a SIP OPTIONS periodically and keep the NAT open, if you use 1 to 1 NAT (versus PAT where it is many to one NAT) it will work because port 5060 on the private address will still be port 5060 on the public address. Tried that,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using frequent keepalives to eliminate need for NAT port forwarding?

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Tim Panton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. That is the way that IAX2 likes to work. Ok. However, not all providers will allow it, some require a fixed IPaddress and port for them to send calls to. Is this the reason for the recommendation I've seen in various forums to have port 4569

RE: [Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ prematurely hangingup

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Engleward
--- Josh McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a shot in the dark... but have you tried Answer() before Playback()? http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+tips+answer-before-playback says New versions of Asterisk have added Answer capabilities to several functions like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ prematurely hanging up

2006-05-02 Thread Tom Engleward
I have a PSTN termination provider foo which will accept standard U.S. calls in the form 110 digit ph#. I have an outbound route named foo, with dial pattern 5|., with the only entry in trunk sequence being IAX2/foo. I have an X-lite local extension, on which I can dial 5110 digit ph#,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] integrated voip originator, to digitize audio once and only once?

2006-05-01 Thread Tom Engleward
Bruce Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use teliax.com and exgn.net to do my initial test of toll free calls into my system. How's your experience been with their audio quality, and with their inbound call completion reliability? __ Do You

[Asterisk-Users] Using frequent keepalives to eliminate need for NAT port forwarding?

2006-05-01 Thread Tom Engleward
I have an asterisk system behind NAT, and need to connect to public PSTN originators via SIP or IAX2, but don't have the option of forwarding any ports (4569, 5060, etc) to the asterisk system. However, the NAT system does properly establish transient UDP forwarding on the basis of outgoing

[Asterisk-Users] /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ prematurely hanging up

2006-05-01 Thread Tom Engleward
I have a PSTN termination provider foo which will accept standard U.S. calls in the form 110 digit ph#. I have an outbound route named foo, with dial pattern 5|., with the only entry in trunk sequence being IAX2/foo. I have an X-lite local extension, on which I can dial 5110 digit ph#, and

[Asterisk-Users] integrated voip originator, to digitize audio once and only once?

2006-04-30 Thread Tom Engleward
Calling from a local extension on my local network, I get good voice quality from asterisk, and asterisk reliably recognizes my dtmf input. I set up a sipphone trunk (free) and called in to it via a separate sipphone account on another computer, and got slightly lower, but still good, audio