[asterisk-users] Asterisk on Dynamic IP to a SIP extension

[Paul Belanger]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Doug <dsc3507 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Verizon has put another good third party DSL supplier out of the DSL
> business. Their mindset is to kill the competition and then kill DSL and
> copper althogether in FIOS areas.
>
> So am soon losing my static IP and I need to prepare for the change. I
> currently have Asterisk running using, besides local extensions, a remote
> SIP extension in another state. In the new configuration both Asterisk and
> the remote extension will be behind dynamic IP.
>
> I will be running dyndns or equivalent and likely ddclient to update IP's.
> Will there be any issues running in this way? Will Asterisk ride through an
> IP change without a restart? If there is a definitive wiki topic on this
> please pass me the link.
>
> ddclient is configurable to do any restarts or changes that might be
> necessary should an IP address change.
>
> I am told that Comcast, which I am hoping to get, has "sticky" dynamic IP
> meaning the IP addresses rarely if ever change. If that is the case then
> this is pretty much a non issue. I think they use the router mac address to
> assign an IP address.
>
> Also the version of Asterisk I am running is old - 1.2.35 - yes I know it's
> old but it works and does what I need. Are there differences in versions on
> how the above would work?
>
sip.conf
[general]
externhost = foo.no-ip.org

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