Need some advise on VoXaLot, ENUM, etc.

[jptg5Y]

I have an Asterisk server.
It is connected to the internet.

Can I use my:
1. ENUM
2. VoXaLot account
3. A SIP Broker access number with my ENUM

To receive incoming calls to my Asterisk server?

So that my Asterisk server can route the calls, as needed.

My main goal is to just receive incoming calls via this method.
Is this possible?

I appreciate any advise, suggestions, ...

Thank you.

[martin]

Yes. This can be achieved by:

1. Signing up for a VoXaLot account
2. Registering that account in your Asterisk sip.conf
3. Visiting e164.org and associating your ENUM number with sip:xxxxxx@voxalot.com

[jptg5Y]

Great! Thanks. I'll take these 3 steps.

Along these lines, a security question:

My Asterisk server is behind a firewall.
I can open the appropriate port(s) on the firewall to allow that traffic to get to Asterisk.

But instead of opening the "known" ports (at the firewall) and dealing with security risks.
Can I specify some other ports? Like p1, p2.
So that when my firewall receives traffic at p1, p2, it can forward them to the default ports on Asterisk.

If this is possible, where would I specify this?
At VoXaLot or e164.org or ??

[martin]

Yes. You just need to change the bindport in your Asterisk sip.conf. Usually this is set to 5060.

Once you make this change when your Asterisk box registers with VoXaLot it will tell our servers to pass inbounds to this port.

Make sense?

[jptg5Y]

Martin,
Here is example from the sip.conf file:

[VoXaLot_Inbound]
username=xxxxxx ; the VoXaLot number
type=peer
secret=xxxxxxxx ; the VoXaLot password
nat=yes
insecure=very
host=VoXaLot.com
fromuser=xxxxxx ; the VoXaLot number
fromdomain=VoXaLot.com
bindport=5060 ; Martin, is this the bindport you are talking about
context=from-trunk
canreinvite=no

Are you talking about the same "bindport"?
If yes, I should change 5060 to nnnn?

[martin]

No the bindport at the top under [general]

[jptg5Y]

Under the [general] section, I see no "bindport"

If I put a bindport setting there, will it be global?
Will it impact any non-VoXaLot configurations?

[jptg5Y]

Originally Posted by jptg5Y

Martin,
Here is example from the sip.conf file:

Are you talking about the same "bindport"?
If yes, I should change 5060 to nnnn?

Turns out that I don't even need to make changes to my sip.conf file.

Given that, all I ever wanted to do was -
"To receive incoming calls to my Asterisk server?
So that my Asterisk server can route the calls, as needed."

In my VoXaLot account, I did Call Forwarding to:
sip:12345@myAsteriskServer.com

Where 12345 is an extension on my Asterisk server.
Now I can get the phone at extension 12345 to ring
when there is an incoming call on my
12345@voxalot.com account.