[Asterisk-Users] Let's TALK ABOUT IT!!!

[Linus Surguy]

> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, James Sharp wrote:
>
> > > Actually, if this was to be done, it might be an idea to do it with
DNS, so
> > > client machines would just do
> > > Dial(IAX2/resource at 442071234567.centraldb.com/442071234567) and the
DNS
> > > system would resolve which machine is the correct target - no
cleverness at
> > > all required at the client end, so implementation would be portable
across
> > > all the other gnophones etc.
> >
> > Yup. That would be the way to do it.  I'll contribute the DNS code for
it.
>
> Isn't that what e.164 was invented for?

It is that type of mechanism that enum uses and yes it was to solve a
similar goal, but in this case you need a 'route server' type system - in
particular as this is for IP routing of PSTN end points not on an IP
network.