Comments on: Asterisk Hell: A Minefield Navigation Guide for Newbies

By: James

James — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:04:23 +0000

I can’t begin to praise you enough for this awesome article! After 2 successful Asterisk installs and setups, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why the 3rd wouldn’t. I’ve been banging my head for a week trying to figure out why I was only getting one side of the conversation. This article and the "externhost=…" setting saved my sanity and my poor keyboard (which was getting quite the stress test after 8 hours of troubleshooting today). Best… site… ever.

— A thousand thank you’s from a new, loyal fan who’s about to spam the donate button.

By: Annabell Moron

Annabell Moron — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:35:57 +0000

Had some laughs ^^^ Nice work!

By: defilm

defilm — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:13:34 +0000

Love the content and style/attitude, makes for good reading and a few laughs. Running TB now, but with Fontility dieing out, looking to move to the PBXIAF.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:48:12 +0000

I had to add the bindport=5060 in this file for my PBX in a flash system 1.0 /etc/asterisk/sip_custom.conf instead of sip.conf as it is overwritten. I did an "amportal restart" after saving the file and all was good from then on. The sip proxy DEMO started working after this.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:52:25 +0000

This is great info. One other topic not covered (almsot came clos on the ‘reliable’topic – using POTS for incoming calls and VOIP for outgoing calls. What h/w is required and how to configure such setup.

Thanks

By: Don Moskaluk

Don Moskaluk — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:08:48 +0000

I like what you have done with Newbie guide and PiaF! Outstanding work! However I see that there is more opportunity here. Would it be possible to create a video of setup and some administration options?

Although I’m a UNIX guy I do like see step by step instruction on configuration rather than a summary approach. Sometimes something simple as tarball can through the reader off.

I noticed that you have multi version of the same product and it is very clear to me what can be in production and what is more experimental. Can you please give a life cycle of when you are going to retire different version of the software? I would hate to be reading this years from now and installing software that may be obsolete.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:35:05 +0000

Amazingly clear article, really appreciate the steps being outlined.

How do I paste the text from externip section using the command line?

I am having trouble with typing in the following character in nano :

Thank You,

Shane

By: Don Tyler

Don Tyler — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:14:46 +0000

Ward, Great article… I only wish you would have gone deeper into the positive side of adapters. Many of us have gone though the X100P nightmares, but it would be nice to hear what adapters are solid bargains like the evergreen system.

~long time reader… first time writer

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:38:41 +0000

Wow, I don’t think I’ve read a step by step so comprehensive for newbies in NV since the AAH times… Great thing to write Ward!