[Asterisk-Users] IAX2 using non standard port

[Walker Haddock]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:21:28AM -0500, William Waites wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:59:50PM -0600, Walker Haddock wrote:
> > 
> > edit iax2.h file and change line 73 as follows:
> > #define IAX_DEFAULT_PORTNO              80    /* 4569 */
> 
> this is *really* the *wrong* way to fix it.
> the correct way is to set port = 80 in iax.conf

I agree.  The only problem is that IAX grabs this.  Even when I put noload => chan_iax.so, it still would not bind to port 80.  that's when I went looking in the source.

> 
> BUT...
> 
> you will notice near the beginning of the load_module()
> routine in chan_iax2.c, it does
> 
> sin.sin_port = ntohs(IAX_DEFAULT_PORTNO);
> sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;

I saw that.

> 
> in other words, the local address the iax2 process 
> binds to, as well as the port, are hardcoded in
> the source.
> 
> not good. these should come from the config file
> with INADDR_ANY and IAX_DEFAULT_PORTNO as defaults.

I was thinking it should work this way. 

> 
> can you create a bug for this on bugs.digium.com?

I'd be glad to, I haven't opened a bug before.  Do I just log in and state these facts?

Walker

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