[asterisk-users] Please some enlightment on ENUM !!

Leif Neland leifn at neland.dk
Wed Nov 25 16:44:22 CST 2009


Norbert Zawodsky skrev:
> SIP schrieb:
>   
>>>   Yes... you would have to register (and possibly pay for, dependent on
>>> the ENUM registrar) each individual number. The idea behind ENUM is that
>>> it's an E164 number that is already yours that maps to whatever you want
>>> it to map to (email, SIP, etc).  The key point here is that you already
>>> own the E164 number. If you do, then you could register them all at
>>> e164.org for free.  If you don't own the individual numbers, you
>>> shouldn't be allowed to register them as your own. That sort of breaks
>>> the ENUM concept of a number you take with you as a personal identifier.
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
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>
> Hi N. !
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Either I don't understand what you want to tell me or this thread slowly
> drifts away from my original question.
>
> My original question was:
>
> If you "own" a telephone number which connects to your company and you
> have a PBX (like asterisk) and some extesniosn behind that, how/where do
> you enum-register each extension so that each extension can be reached
> "from outside" by a SIP uri?
>
> Meanwhile I managed to speak to a technician at my-enum.at, which is my
> registrar at e164.arpa. He *comfirmed* my original assumption:
>
> If you have a telephone number and want to paticipate in enum, you have
> to register that number at - for example - e164.arpa.
>
> If you operate extensions "behind" that number and you want them to be
> reachable too, you have to run your own DNS server and register this
> server at e164.arpa. This server is naturally under your responsibility
> and you "manage" all your extension yourself.
>
> It is works exactly like any other DNS resolution.
>   
But then you create phonenumbers in enum, which doesn't exist as 
pstn-numbers.

Not the idea behind enum.

On the other hand, if you owned 10 or 100 pstn-numbers in series, you 
could get the last one or two digits delegated to your dns-server.

Leif





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