[asterisk-users] Possibly I don't understand sip peers

[Anthony]

Jared Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:06 -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>   
>> I have a carrier who tells me he will be sending me traffic from a wide
>> range of IP addresses.
>>
>> so I set up a realtime peer as follows:
>>
>> [peer]
>> defaultip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
>> allow=xxx.xxx.xxx.0/255.255.255.0
>> insecure=port,invite
>>
>>
>> Yes, he's really claiming to originate from any of the IP in the block
>>
>> When I leave the host blank, we reject calls with a 404.
>>
>> shouldn't I be able to put in a kind of "wildcard" for his IP block or
>> am I just being silly?  If not, what am I doing wrong?
>>     
>
> I think you've got your syntax wrong there... "permit" and "deny"
> statements are used to create Access Control Lists and to limit the IP
> address ranges.  The "allow" and "disallow" statements are to allow or
> disallow various codecs.  They way you've specified it above, you're
> allowing a codec called xxx.xxx.xxx.0/255.255.255.0, which probably
> isn't what you want.
>
>
>   

Your looking for host=dynamic.


Anthony