[asterisk-users] SIP-NAT failure on dynamic IP

[Olle E Johansson]

16 aug 2006 kl. 23.54 skrev Technical Support:

> We have a client running Asterisk using a dynamic IP.  When the IP  
> lease is renewed to a different address, their SIP connections to  
> external clients fail (one way audio).
>
> A simple asterisk restart fixes the problem, but they can't count  
> on an admin always available.  Is there way in sip.conf or other to  
> eliminate the dependence on a particular IP?  (for clients behind  
> NAT)?
>
Look at the externhost= setting in sip.conf. That's where you set a  
dyndns hostname that will be
refreshed regurlarly by Asterisk as you change the IP.

/O

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