[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Ahmad Al-Ibrahim]

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Majed B. wrote:
> 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!