[asterisk-users] Suggestion for a new asterisk setup.

[Andy Hester]

Andrew,

Thanks, for the response.  That is a very clean solution and much less work/complication, however, I am not sure that the security guy for this network will allow me to put up the asterisk box dual homed to the public IP and the LAN.  If there is not another feasible way then I may end up going with this anyway.  Any other feasible ways to accomplish this?


Sorry for the top post... Having to use Outlook for the moment.

Thanks,
Andy Hester

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Joakimsen
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Suggestion for a new asterisk setup.

I assume there is one NAT router for the LAN and nothing fancy, so setup the Asterisk machine on the router/firewall (or make it such) and have it listen on both LAN and WAN interface.

Now use a hostname for the SIP server, and run a DHCP/DNS server that will resolve that hostname to the LAN IP address of  your router, when it is queried from the LAN side, when from the WAN side it would just be the regular lookup (use FQDN). 

Now phones will work from anywhere, no NAT issues to deal with at all. Each interface that asterisk runs on is isolated from the other.