[Asterisk-Users] Unable to dial using SIP using FWD and iConnectHere

[Brian Wilkins]

If it's what Andrew is talking about, then add the hostname to /etc/hosts.

On Thursday 16 September 2004 05:27 pm, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Rodolfo Grave wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I cant make SIP calls from asterisk.
> >
> > When I start asterisk, I get the following message: What does it means??
> > Asterisk is not behind NAT or Firewall.
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > [chan_sip.so] => (Session Initiation Protocol (SIP))
> >  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/sip.conf': Found
> > Sep 16 09:52:33 WARNING[16384]: chan_sip.c:8477 reload_config: Unable to
> > get IP address for dhcp-1111-490, SIP disabled
>
> What is "dhcp-1111-490"? Is that the name of your linux machine?
>
> Do your linux box get its IP via DHCP from your provider?
>
> Do a reverse lookup on your linux boxes IP and see if it comes up as
> dhcp-1111-490.yourcarrier.tld or something like that. If so, try pinging
>   dhcp-1111-490 and also the reverse lookup address. You may have to add
> the yourcarrier.tld to your lookup file(can't remember the name right
> now) so that your dns lookups automatically attempt to search for
> dhcp-1111-490.yourcarrier.tld before they fail out as unknown.

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