[Asterisk-Dev] sip outgoing proxy

[Olle E. Johansson]

Thomas B. Clark wrote:
> I posted this message to asterisk-users but did not get a response. I am 
> hoping somebody here may be interested in this problem.
> 
> I have talked one of the major voip providers into giving me my userid
> and password to test with Asterisk. (I cannot say which one right now, 
> although this would be very good for asterisk users--lots of rate 
> centers, unlimited service.)
> 
> Registration and receiving calls work pretty well.  However, I am
> unable to make calls because the provider requires that the sip URI say
> number at SIP.provider.com, but be sent to number at PROXY.provider.com.
> 

Ask the provider to set up the SRV records for sip.provider.com correctly
and it will work if you enable DNS srv in sip.conf.

I can't see how outbound proxy support would be a good fix to this, since
adding an outbound proxy would make ALL your sip messages goto the providers
SIP proxy...

/O