[Asterisk-Users] SIP/NetMeeting

Jason Williams jas.williams at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 03:58:29 MST 2005


On 4/26/05, William C. Lohr Jr. <blohr at lohrtechnologies.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to resolve an IP from outside a small
> LAN.  I would like to be able to specify a SIP client that is outside my
> office LAN.  The problem is that the isp will not provide a static IP that's
> affordable.  I use a DYNDNS.org address with it.  When I want to use
> NetMeeting for desktop sharing, I just ping the DYNDNS address and it gives
> me the current IP of the remote machine.  Is it possible to specify the host
> name, say billscomputer.dyndns.org for the address of the SIP client in the
> appropriate .conf file for Asterisk?
>  

This is covered automatically if you set host=dynamic in sip.conf and
have the sip phone register with your asterisk then asterisk knows
what IP address the phone is on, this will be updated with every
registration request.


Jason



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