Comments on: STUN Support for Asterisk

By: Alberto Sagredo

Alberto Sagredo — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:22:51 +0000

What about this?

Any version released?

By: Juan C

Juan C — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:08:24 +0000

MrBlog:

Did you publish the code anywhere? Where?

I could be a beta tester if you want.

By: Bj

Bj — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:24:15 +0000

One workaround for ip-number problem is to use a dynamic dns service such as dyndns and point aterisk to this adress. I have a router that updates dyndns everytime the ip changes at boot time. (Netgear)

By: will

will — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 02:26:56 +0000

I would aslo like to know if there is somewhere we could test the code

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:44:37 +0000

I’m very interested in seeing this code, since I’m trying to get exactly this scenario going. Problem is that my DSL gateway is not very SIP friendly, and STUN seems to be the only way to go for me. Is there any usable/testable code available somewhere?

By: MrBlog

MrBlog — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:03:31 +0000

I’m happy to publish the code whereever. The problem is I don’t have the time to do it. If you would be willing to volunteer to clean it up, or publish as is, I’ll send it to you.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:08:48 +0000

David,

Would you be willing to submit your Asterisk-STUN patches to bugs.digium.com? It's really a waste of time and efforts if the bitrot got to them. By putting them on bugs.digium.com at least there is a chance of other developers picking it up where Karl left off.

Thanks,
Pieter

By: benjk

benjk — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:09:38 +0000

I am surprised you say that there is a place for IAX within organisations while you place SIP at the borders.

It would seem you got it precisely upside down because it is at the edge where IAX' strengths are.

The cost of supporting SIP through NAT is significant and it can be cut down to zero when using IAX to deliver VoIP to the edge.

At present we are in the early-to-mid-90s equivalent of VoIP to the internet and mobile phone booms. Business is growing no matter what and cost doesn't matter because you are still beating the cost models of conventional systems.

However, the party cannot last forever. At some point the chicken will come home to roost and cost will matter once again. At that point businesses will be interested in anything that can do away with all the overheads SIP carries along as baggage.

IAX is very well positioned to fill the spot and as the example of going from H.323 to SIP shows, the industry will let go of today's favourite love child in a hearbeat for any new found love.

By: MrBlog

MrBlog — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:28:16 +0000

Thanks for the link, Tom. I enjoy reading Internet Telephony Magazine.

Emil, we are making progress on the project. One thing that is concerning me a bit is that adding STUN support for RTP required a significant redesign of Asterisk chan_sip and so at this point I’m very concerned about how we can merge back into the official/core Asterisk RCS. For now, it looks like it’s going to be a totally separate chan_sip, which I’m a little disappointed about. We hope to release a version for outside testing and evaluation within the next couple of weeks.

By: Emil

Emil — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:17:59 +0000

I look forward to having STUN support in Asterisk, which should let me finally get rid of Bellsouth. Is there an update to the project? I have been looking around but have not been able to find anything newer than your announcement.