On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Tim St. Pierre <fs-list@communicatefreely.net> wrote:

Hi Steven,

I would recommend using a proper domain name as much as possible. For one, it looks
nicer! A SIP URI is supposed to be user@domain like an e-mail address is, and I hope that
one day URI dialing will be common place, so we might as well do it right the first time.

What you're saying is that "domain" should really be a fully-qualified host name that points via DNS to the actual host on which FreeSwitch is running. That is, the domain should be "pbx.example.com" instead of just "example.com", as the last example would most likely point to a web server, not the SIP server. Do I have that right?

Next, in the configuration for Polycom phones (for example), there are 2 fields that both have the userid. In the example in http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Polycom_configuration it has:

reg.1.auth.userId="1000"

and

reg.1.address="1000@fs.domain.local"

How is the "address" value used? Is that sent in the SIP registration message? If that's the case, what does Freeswitch do with it?

Steve