[Asterisk-Users] sip registration problems

[Stephen Davies]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Mark Spencer wrote:

> If we're doing to/from that way, then agreed.  In CVS.  By the way, the
> logic of using IP's was to reduce the number of gethostbyname()'s required
> at the other side.  All examples in 3261 seem to use hostnames, but is
> this a requirement, or even desirable?  Changing this throughout SIP and
> not just in the REGISTER would also be extremely difficult.

My answer would be that the URIs in From and To are "conceptual".  Like an
identifying "handle" for someone.  So they should be kept in the given
form.

Contact, Via, Record-Route and the like should probably have IP addresses.

Steve