[Asterisk-Users] Confuson on iax calls (register or not?)

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Rich Adamson wrote:

>Think I'm a little confused on registering an iax connection; could
>someone enlighten me?
>
>I guess the real question is... when two * machines are going to rely
>on an iax link (each with their own dial plan), do both machines have
>to register with each other (eg, both need a 'register' statement)?
>
>Or, will a single machine doing the registering cause the opposite
>machine to recognize the registration, and allow calls to be originated
>in both directions?
>If so, assume machine "B" registers with machine "A" (machine B has the
>register statement). Then, in machine A's extensions.conf dial plan,
>what would the statement similar to
> exten => _6X.,1,Dial(IAX/npi-off:mypassword at 205.122.192.89/${EXTEN-1})
>look like? (I'm assuming the above might use the context for which
>machine B registered with?)
>  
>

AFAIK a register directive is only required when one of the servers has 
a dynamic IP address which cannot be resolved from the outside or is 
behind NAT..

So if both your servers are on the open internet then you probably don't 
need to have any register directives set..

Later..