[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Majed B.]

I have some disturbing news... I read that trixbox sends personal
information over to its company, and have been told by a couple of
people (in IRC) that trixbox has the tendency to install scripts
without prior consent of the user.
Also, they have the tendency to ignore security problems...

I just finished installing PBX in a Flash, and believe me, it's NOT a
quick installation! It's an ugly installation... the free version
requires that you have an Internet connection because it downloads the
source from the website then compiles it on the machine (yes, it
compiles it from source...).

So what was supposed to be done in "a Flash" took me around 2 hours.

I'm currently running Asterisk 1.6.1.1 with Dahdi 2.2.02+2.2.0.

How are things progressing on your end?

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Majed B.<majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahmad, here's what I noticed about the NAT thing.
>
> It's NOT a NAT thing. It's a DNS resolution problem. Whenever I run
> "dig domain.net" on the PBX machine, the PBX recognizes the public IP
> of my domain for a few minutes, then it goes back to unknown.
>
> So instead of having script update the IP for me, I'll just run dig
> every 3-5 minutes... It's retarded but it works, until I figure out
> what the hell is going on with this.
>
> Even the guys at #asterisk & #freepbx aren't helping on this...
>
> Which reminds me, you could go there and ask them. They're on
> irc.freenode.net, port 6667. Register your nickname to access their
> channels:
>
> /nick <your nickname>
> /nickserv register <pass> <email>
>
> Login to your email and copy/paste the verification line
>
> /nickserv identify <pass>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Majed B.<majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't see where the problem is Ahmad. The manual says to use wires 4
>> & 5, which are what we use in Kuwait (The middle 2 wires) and it works
>> on my end.
>>
>> Notice that they have shown a figure of 8 wires not 4; that's because
>> they have digital services, unlike us.
>>
>> With that said, Kuwait's caller ID is similar to that of UK (BT
>> company), so the way that someone showed in the asterisk forum might
>> actually work for you:
>>
>> 1          ------1
>> 2---------/
>> 3---------\
>> 4          ------4
>>
>> http://www.asterisk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42449&sid=f7f76ad03a8a80004579d26d75ae1206
>>
>> But before you venture into making such a cable, open the phone's wall
>> socket and look at where the cables are wired (which pins). You should
>> follow the same.
>>
>> If you confirm the wiring, then focus on the PBX itself. I haven't
>> found anything that points at where the problem is, apart from these
>> two links:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com/msg01430.html
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com/msg01394.html
>>
>> They say that if you had old trunk configurations, and deleted them,
>> the GUI may not have cleaned them up as it should (notice the date of
>> these messages: They're in July 2009).
>>
>> So you have two options, as suggested in the links:
>> 1) Delete the trunk configuration then dive into the specified config
>> files and make sure there are no references of them.
>> 2) Reinstall.
>>
>> Good luck!
-- 
       Majed B.