OK, so many of you may have ran into the same problem that I have had trying to set up a number from the sip provider VoiceStick. My specific application requires that I buy 50 - 200 DID numbers. I did a lot of searching, and found a few providers that I wanted to try. These people at VoiceStick were very helpful and seemed to have the most support for non-24 hour services from what I could find anyways.
Now, the only things I can see being a problem with VoiceStick is that they don't do the following:
- They give you an IP address instead of a DNS name to point at their server. If they ever change, well, lets just say you would be in trouble until you found out about the change
- They dont have any kind of network fail over option so like if their network goes down, or they cant hit your server, it wont forward to another number
- No 24 hour support options - If you are down over the weekend, lets hope they know about it.
A huge advantage is that you can buy there .99 cent DID number, and only pay one cent per min on the usage. So if you have a call center, a number that cost more means you are doing some good calls on it. Lets hope the telemarketers stay away.
After some short and quick email correspondences with VoiceStick, I got the details needed to setup my TrixBox with their SIP server. It worked right away, and the quality seems to be very nice!
Settings:
Now, the kicker is you need to adjust your /etc/host file to include the following line:
72.5.80.116 i2telecom.com
Once that is setup, your system will be registered without any issues! In and outbound work just fine.
Hope this helps --- lets just hope they don't change the IP address of the server any time soon!