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

[Bruce Ferrell]

Anthony wrote:
> 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
> 

Tried that.  dynamic seems to require a registration to work.  Carriers
don't register.