On 24 February 2015 at 11:48, James Bensley jwbensley@gmail.com wrote:
I have an Ubuntu box with the package manager version of Asterisk installed, sitting in a data centre connected to the Internet and it works fine.
Since I asked the question I too have one set up, and I have to say it was a *lot* easier to get the basics set up than it ever was with any of the GUI based alternatives I tried simply because the initial install just worked. That said it was helpful having a working IncrediblePBX setup to compare settings with.
I am concerned about getting security right but for my usage (all clients IAX2 based) I've been able to firewall the server so that only IAX2 and SSH are enabled, which is comforting. At present I have incoming calls from my SIP "trunks" working fine but haven't set up outbound calls via them, which suits me anyway as I really only tend to use them for inbound (and it limits the possibilities for someone else spending my credit!)
This is an example of how to create a SIP trunk between two Asterisk boxes, creating the SIP peers on each side and adding the dial plan entries (in extensions.conf): http://null.53bits.co.uk/index.php?page=basic-sip-trunk
Thanks, docs like this are pretty useful for getting some general understanding.