Archive for the 'Asterisk' Category

Published by kyle on 12 May 2007

More VoIP

To follow on from my previous post, I’ve gone about setting up SIP addressing like this for a very good reason. Other than the eventual demise of telephone numbers, I believe that larger VoIP networks will increasingly grow in size, whilst marginalizing the smaller networks. This is what happened to free email provides many years ago, and it’ll happen again to VoIP providers. Continue Reading »

Published by kyle on 12 May 2007

VoIP

Lately I’ve been poking around Asterisk and related VoIP stuff, and generally trying to make it work. I’ve (not) read my fair share of documentation, and it still seems pretty patchy. I’ve signed up for a free 0141 number from Sipgate and it seems mostly good. However, SIP addressing is a big itch that I’ve recently scratched… Continue Reading »

Published by kyle on 02 Apr 2007

More Zap Bugs

In an astounding piece of ignorance, the Digium bug tracking managers have closed off bugs 8763 and 9081. Both bugs are clearly reproducable, clearly showstoppers, and clearly a big problem, yet they refer the original reporter to Digium support and close off the bug as “No change required”.

Now, if you have a bit of hardware used by millions the world over, and your software randomly hangs on it without a word of warning and then refuses to work until it is unloaded and reloaded, then it really should be investigated a bit more closely. Digium & Open Source… just like clowns but without the fancy dress.

Published by kyle on 10 Feb 2007

Zap Bugs

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a bug that is affecting Zaptel software and hardware, both on the bug tracker, and more recently on the Asterisk users mailing list. Maybe I’m going about it the wrong way, but absolutely nobody seems to be interested in what appears to be quite a critical bug. If anyone has any idea on what to do to cure it, then it would be greatly appreciated.