[Asterisk-Users] ENUM lookup help

[John Todd]

At 1:14 PM -0600 on 7/21/04, Marty Mastera wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I playing around with ENUM and have configured * 
>to query a few sources for testing purposes 
>(fierymoon, e164.arpa, e164.org).  I'd like to 
>know if there is a way to query these servers 
>manually (ie outside of asterisk via nslookup or 
>equivalent) to find out if particular exchanges 
>are listed with wildcards, so as to terminate 
>calls to those prefixes (I'm not trying to query 
>for specific end-user telephone numbers).  I've 
>seen the syntax of the NAPTR records indicating 
>that an '*' represents the wildcard but I'm not 
>sure how to manually query using oneŠI've tried 
>nslookup, directed at e164.org and using queries 
>like '800', '1800', '800*', '1800*' with no luck 
>(I used a toll free prefix hoping that it be 
>likely to offer a responseŠ.
>

From a reasonably recent UNIX system, type:

  dig @ns1.au1.com.au naptr 0.0.8.1.e164.org.

>If this isn't possible, is there a resource 
>available dedicated to listing prefixes 
>available via ENUM for the purposes of low cost 
>routing?
>

Not at the moment.  See this list's archives for 
"enum" to get a better idea of why not.

JT


>Thanks,
>
>Marty