Topic: Dial external sip number

[jester]

Hi,
I've got SAIL connected to a SIP carrier (VoipBuster) and am trying to ring someone else who also has a VoipBuster account. I thought of setting up an alias for this... but whatever i try i can't get it working. Has anyone got this working and is willing to give me some hints?!


Thanx!

[arne]

I think this will not work for Voipbuster. I think Voipbuster has incomming DID numbers for som countries that you can buy. (If you live in that country.) Some iptelefone vendors allow incomming numbers in this form acountname@voipbuster.com For the actual case, I think that Voipbuster does not support this way of doing incomming calls.

If one the other hand you know the ip or the domain name of the server of the person you want to call and one of his incomming numbers, it will normally be possible to call him like this 12345678@123.1213.123.123 or 12345678@friendsserverdomain.com In this case your call will be set up direct from your Asterisk server to his Asterisk server.

If you and your friend each have an Asterisk server in two parts of the wold they will normally be able to call eachother directely for the price of US 00,00

I use a standard Asterisk server and not the spesial one for SME server, so I hope I will be corrected if I'm wrong (again ..

[jester]

Hi Arne,

Thanks for your response! Voipbuster does allow you to call other voipbuster users (for free), at least with their softphone; so i reckon it should be doable with Asterisk. I'm not to keen on opening my server up for direct connections to Asterisk but if there is no other alternative...

I'm hoping to be able to solve this with the SAIL/Asterisk install i've got (partially ) working right now.


Regards.

[arne]

Ineresting if you got it working.

I have allways thought of the sip product and the webtelephone as two technically different products (I think/thaught they allmost do the same but technically work different.)

For my incomming numbers (acounts) I can do this:

1. Log into the running asterisk server:  asterisk -vvvr

2. Se which incomming numbers or accounts that is registered at external service vendors: sip show registry

There is no registry entrys for Voipbuster, is it (??)

As I have sat up my Voipbuster account I think it will only work for outgoing calls. (Is there other ways to do it ?)

Note: I use a standard manually configured Asterisk distro so things might be slightly different.

I wouldn't believe that this setup would support incomming calls, but hopefully I'm wrong ..
http://www.voipbuster.com/en/sipp.html

[SARK devs]

Hi guys

We've checked out Voipbuster (a good while ago) for outbound calls to PSTN.  It works pretty much like any other SIP platform - i.e. dial SIP/number@sip1.voipbuster.com.  However, (this for Jester) you refer to aliases not working but don't say whether you can dial your buddy manually across your Voipbuster trunk.  This leaves us a bit confused as to what the problem is.

Using Aliases as "speeddials" to ring outbound numbers works fine, always has.  In fact when Stephen originally did the first SME/Asterisk implementation(upon which SAIL is based), Aliases were called Speeddials (the actual module which defines them is still called sarkspeed).  Create your Alias; give it a short number; put the external number in the target field and choose the trunk you want to carry it from the trunk dropdown.  Job done.

So.. can you be a bit more specific...  Have you created a Voipbuster trunk (and relevent Route entry)?  Does it work?  Can you dial your buddy using it?  What does your alias look like.  What do you see at the asterisk console when you dial it?

Kind Regards

S