Hi Johannes, DNS is not particularily hard to setup, although it involves setting up a glue records on your ISP or registrar.
What DNS server do you intend to use? John Van Ostrand Net Direct Inc. CTO, co-CEO 564 Weber St. N. Unit 12 map Waterloo, ON N2L 5C6 [email protected] Ph: 866-883-1172 ext.5102 Linux Solutions / IBM Hardware Fx: 519-883-8533 Johannes Vanderknyff <[email protected]> wrote on 02/19/2010 01:21:24 PM: > > And that is the problem I am having to try and get a working SipX test > environment.... Apparently it is dependent on having a working DNS > environment up. > > Johannes > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Jim Van Meggelen <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thanks to all for the helpful feedback. > > > > I don't think we have the basis for a talk, yet, but it's good information > > regardless, and I appreciate it. > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > On 2/18/2010 6:11 PM, Jim Van Meggelen 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] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
