[asterisk-users] Point a Digium phone to a configuration URL using mDNS without DPMA or DHCP option 66

[Alex Villací­s Lasso]

El 28/02/13 08:40, A J Stiles escribió:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2013, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
>> I have the following scenario. A small network has DHCP but does not
>> publish option 66. An Asterisk server is on the network, but the Asterisk
>> version does not support DPMA and it is hard to switch the version.
>> However, there is a possibility to have a web server and an mDNS (Avahi)
>> server. I have been reading about provisioning Digium phones without DPMA,
>> and it mentions that option 66 can specify the URL prefix to use for the
>> XML configuration. Is there a way to specify the same through Avahi mDNS?
>> Something along the lines of this (of course this does not work, but gives
>> an idea of what I am looking for):
> DPMA is proprietary and toxic, so you are quite right not to use it.
>
> If you add a line like
> options tftp-server-name "10.0.0.145"
> to your DHCP server's /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf , then this will give you the
> "option 66" you need. And note that even although it's advertised as a TFTP
> server, the Digium phones actually put out a HTTP request aot a TFTP request
> (that took some head-scratching to figure out).  So you will need to have
> Apache running on 10.0.0.145; and a bunch of configuration files named like
> 000fd3000000.cfg
> where the digits of the filename are the MAC address of the phone, in the web
> server's default document root  (/var/www/ on Debian systems).
>
I forgot to point out that in my scenario, I may not have any administrative control over the DHCP server. Otherwise, the way you indicate would be obvious. Anyway, I received an email saying that mDNS cannot support pointing a Digium phone to anything 
other than a DPMA-enabled Asterisk.