Thank you very much for the insight! Could you explain

*You need to disable ALG/SPI on your zyxel to get remote phones to
register. *

a little bit further? Yes, as far as I understand sipX is fully capable of
dealing with SIP header transitions between private / public realms all by
itself - but could I also disable this in order to use my ALG for inside /
outside transitions (for remote calls / remote phones registering) ? One
advantage using the ALG would be that RTP port forwarding is limited to the
ports that are really in use at the time.

2010/5/8 Tony Graziano <[email protected]>

> About DNS in general
>
> http://sipxecs.blogspot.com/2009/10/dns-concepts-for-sipxecs.html
>
> <http://sipxecs.blogspot.com/2009/10/dns-concepts-for-sipxecs.html>About
> subdomains and why you might prefer them
>
>
> http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/xecsuserV4r2/Upgrade+or+Install+Planning+for+4.2+and+XMPP
>
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Tony Graziano <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Robert Hoffmann 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to do a very basic install of sipXecs with the latest ISO. I
>>> have a public domain with the needed SIP records.
>>> Now I see that the sipX proxy is not starting because it requires a local
>>> DNS server with the same SIP records but pointing its local address.
>>> I understand that this is basically masquerading the public entries to
>>> make things easier at the local network - but is this mandatory by design of
>>> sipX?
>>>
>> No, you need split dns. REINSTALL from ISO and let sipx be your dns server
>> for the PC's behind nat. If on the LAN, get DNS from sipx, if outside, look
>> up public dns records.
>>
>>>
>>> I have a Zyxel USG-100 Firewall/UTMA with SIP ALG and would like my SIP
>>> phones to use the public SIP DNS records (and the public IP) and then NAT /
>>> ALG the phones' requests back ("hairpin") to the sipX proxy.
>>>
>>>    - I am just learning about deployment, is NATing / ALGing to
>>>    "hairpin" the stuff a smart idea? Is it generally possible?
>>>
>>> No. You need to disable ALG/SPI on your zyxel to get remote phones to
>> register. It's not hairpinning, it registering to sipx, which would use a
>> b2bua (sipxbridge) to anchor the media and provide rtp.
>>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    - Whether it is smart or not, can sipX be configured to not require a
>>>    local DNS server? - so that I can try the above?
>>>
>>> You need to dns server on sipx or a dns server INTERNALLY to host the
>> proper records, even if no pc points to in internally. If you have a pc
>> internally, it should not resolved the domain publicly.
>>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for any ideas / advices. I am an IT student and have
>>> just started exploring the possibilities of SIP PBX deployments.
>>>
>>>
>>> You might consider running sipx on a subdomain instead of the domain
>> itself, I think that will resolve all your problems. Public dns records need
>> to be available, but local pc/phones need to resolve the subdomain
>> internally, not inside, backoutside, then back in. Noone would in their
>> right mind WANT to deliberately do that, so thanks for asking, but don;t do
>> what you asked in the first place. It's a horrible way to start learning.
>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ======================
>> Tony Graziano, Manager
>> Telephone: 434.984.8430
>> sip: [email protected]
>> Fax: 434.984.8431
>>
>> Email: [email protected]
>>
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>> Telephone: 434.984.8426
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>> Fax: 434.984.8427
>>
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>>
>> Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
>> Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ======================
> Tony Graziano, Manager
> Telephone: 434.984.8430
> sip: [email protected]
> Fax: 434.984.8431
>
> Email: [email protected]
>
> LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk:
> Telephone: 434.984.8426
> sip: [email protected]
> Fax: 434.984.8427
>
> Helpdesk Contract Customers:
> http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/
>
> Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas?
> Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
>
>
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