Working configuration for incoming Asterisk IAX2

The port tester will fail if Asterisk is running.

It is an 0844 number from My Numbers you are trying to pick up via IAX?
The 0844933 numbers are SIP only.

Are you trying to redirect your number to any other location?

Try stating the IAX address as Destination 1 in My Numbers, but select Destination 2 as the preferred termination (There is a glitch)

Thanks for your reply.

rgower :

The port tester will fail if Asterisk is running.

Yes I have fixed that! It was running on another machine on the LAN and was being re-directed by the NAT to my asterisk box! Running testport on the asterisk server (whilst * is off) now succeeds

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It is an 0844 number from My Numbers you are trying to pick up via IAX? The 0844933 numbers are SIP only.

It's the number I got when I signed up last night. I wasn't offered any choices for numbers or their usage. It is this 08444849XXX and so I don't think it fits your 0844933 comment.

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Are you trying to redirect your number to any other location?

Not to my knowledge. I have just entered the line as in my OP into the 'IAX2/' text box on the web form. If I instead use SIP and my ekiga account it routes perfectly.

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Try stating the IAX address as Destination 1 in My Numbers, but select Destination 2 as the preferred termination (There is a glitch)

Tried that - no joy either...

Any other ideas?

Could you clarify your IAX context is:

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[08444849XXX] username=08444849XXX secret=verybigsecret type=user context=inbound-voipuser

Please.

Actually you don't need to use the number, it can be anything, as long as the context name, username and address are the same i.e. you can use the same IAX address for as many inbound numbers as you like

rgower :

Could you clarify your IAX context is: Quote: [08444849XXX] username=08444849XXX secret=verybigsecret type=user context=inbound-voipuser Please. Actually you don't need to use the number, it can be anything, as long as the context name, username and address are the same i.e. you can use the same IAX address for as many inbound numbers as you like

I actually had the username set as my 'voipuser' username but I changed it as you suggest. Although with asterisk debug set to 9 I am seeing NOTHING in terms of activity on the * console when I call my number 08444849XXX. This makes me think it is a network problem rather than an * config problem.

Here is my IAX.conf as it stands now:

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[08444849XXX] username=08444849XXX secret=verybigsecret type=user context=inbound-voipuser

Thanks for your help.

Alan

I got it working but I had to set both destination 1 and destination 2 to the IAX2 setting. Then calls were delivered to my server.

Secondly, the called number as presented in the call setup is prefixed with "44" rather than 0 so the extension configuration in the inbound-voipuser context needs to be prefixed with 44.

What I can't seem to do - is use my dynDNS name as opposed to my IP address. Is dns lookup supported? If so is it cached for a, relatively, long period of time?

Thanks for your help.

Alan