Open Comments - an experiment

Commenting is now allowed by all, as an experiment. Hopefully, I will not suffer too much spam carnage and will be able to keep things open this way indefinitely. Have fun!

Zach Miller Appears with Dr. Dog on Conan O’Brien

Way back in the day, Zach Miller and I worked the light cage at Big Spring High School and I was even lucky enough to (try to) play guitar with Zach a few times with some friends; I say try to because Zach is an amazing guitarist and at the time, I had a Strat-alike [...]

The no-NAT dilemma with Asterisk and Bandwidth.com

I recently established an Asterisk phone system utilizing Bandwidth.com SIP trunks. One of the first things the Bandwidth.com representative told me about configuring the Asterisk system was “ This must be a public NON-NATTED IP Address. If you use a private or NATTED address the service will not work.” Wow, this would present some [...]

trixbox / Asterisk setup to use Bandwidth.com SIP Trunks

If you are trying to get your SIP trunks with Bandwidth.com established, you will most likely want to use something very similar to the following config. This can be accessed via the Asterisk > FreePBX > Setup > Trunks menu. You will want to delete the default IAX trunk and add a new SIP trunk. [...]