I"m going to guess its because mydomain.localhost doesn't resolve outside the machine itself so the softphone never ends up knowing wtf to do. /b On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:42 AM, freeswitch noob wrote:

I have a noobish question about setting up FS.

I have it installed and running.

I setup a soft client on the machine fs is on and point it to the ip address of the FS instance and it registers with no issues.

I then setup an entry in my etc/hosts files "mydomain.localhost" and changed the domain in the soft client.

The registration now fails. with the soft phone giving a 503 error "service unavailable"

And I am watching the cli and I see no errors come through with the domain but I see it register with the IP :(

I change it back to the ip address and it works.

Any direction you guys could point me in would be great.