[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0013065]: [patch] sip_nat_settings - script to generate externip and localnet

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13065 
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Reported By:                tzafrir
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   13065
Category:                   Utilities/NewFeature
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           1.4.21 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2008-07-13 01:23 CDT
Last Modified:              2008-10-07 13:35 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] sip_nat_settings - script to generate
externip and localnet
Description: 
If an Asterisk system is behind NAT, SIP calls outside will usually have no
audio unless externip and localnet are set.

In most cases (a single network interface) it is possible to give a sane
value for localnet. figuring out externip cannot be done locally. I simply
ended up asking http://whatismyip.org/ (and big thanks to whoever set it
up). 

Naturally those are sane defaults only if I know in advance that the
system is behind NAT.

I used it with asterisk 1.4 on several occasions. AFAIK it is still needed
(and with the same ocnfiguration directives) in trunk.

Example output:

externip = 62.90.10.53
localnet = 192.168.0.255/255.255.255.0

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 (0093318) Dovid (reporter) - 2008-10-07 13:35
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13065#c93318 
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If your DNS is not working (for instance if I set wwww.whatismyip.org to
another IP) I get:
externip = 
localnet = 172.16.1.255/255.255.255.0

Wouldn't we want some error in case their DNS goes down or if the users
DNS has issues ? Seems to be taking a chance on relying on one URL. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-10-07 13:35 Dovid          Note Added: 0093318                          
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