I think that would be a great topic, Perhaps you could cover using dynamic (Dyndns) and Asterisk and Router setup.
H On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Jim Van Meggelen <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm hoping to learn a bit more about DNS. > > I get it in theoretical terms, but the devil is in the details. > > Let's say I have my website atwww.mycompany.com > > The MX record points to my email provider somehow, and that seems to be > easy enough to set up. > > But how about having SIP calls to go to my PBX (which may or may not have > a hostname)? > > There are a few things that I can't quite get the hang of: > > 1. should I give my PBX a hostname such as pbx.mycompany.com? > 2. should I make that a zone, and run a DNS server on my PBX? > 3. how do I getsip:[email protected] <getsip%[email protected]> to go > tosip:[email protected] <tosip%[email protected]>? > 4. should I just have the main DNS handle sip requests with the IP > address of my PBX, and forget about the zone/server pbx.mycompany.com? > 5. should I be giving all my devices a hostname? do I allow those > hostnames to be handled by DNS? what about NAT and security? > > I'm not looking for answers to all this in an email per se, but more > asking if somebody is willing to do a talk for us that might help > demystify all this? > > BTW, even though I am clearly not qualified to speak on this topic, I'm > a pretty quick study, I have experience with both speaking and training, > and so would be more than willing to do some of the grunt work and > presentation work necessary to present this to the group, if that helps > any of you who have the know-how, but perhaps aren't comfortable > speaking to an audience. > > > -- > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [email protected] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Henry Coleman
