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TANDBERG
VIDEO COMMUNICATION SERVER
ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Introduction
Overview and
status
System
configuration
VCS
configuration
Zones and
neighbors
Clustering and
peers
Call
processing
Bandwidth
control
Firewall
traversal
Appendices
Applications
Maintenance
ENUM dialing
Prerequisites
For a local endpoint to be able to dial another endpoint using
ENUM via your VCS, the following conditions must be met:
•
There must be a NAPTR record available in DNS that maps
the called endpoint’s E.164 number to its URI. It is the
responsibility of the administrator of the enterprise to which
the called endpoint belongs to provide this record, and they
will only make it available if they wish the endpoints in their
enterprise to be contactable via ENUM dialing.
•
You must
configure an ENUM zone
on your local VCS. This
ENUM zone must have a
DNS Suffix
that is the same as the
domain where the NAPTR record for the called endpoint is
held.
•
You must
configure your local VCS with the address of at least
one DNS server
that it can query for the NAPTR record (and if
necessary any resulting URI).
After the ENUM process has returned one or more URIs, a new
search will begin for each of these URIs in accordance with
the
URI dialing process
. If the URIs belong to locally registered
endpoints, no further configuration is required. However, if one
or more of the URIs are not locally registered, you may also need
to
configure a DNS zone
if they are to be located using a DNS
lookup.
Process
The process below is followed when an ENUM (E.164) number is
dialed from an endpoint registered with your VCS:
1. The user dials the E.164 number from their endpoint.
2. The VCS initiates a search for the E.164 number as dialed. It
follows the usual
search process
.
3. After applying any pre-search transforms, the VCS checks its
search rules
to see if any of them are configured with a
Mode
of either:
•
Any Alias
, or
•
Alias Pattern Match
with a pattern that matches the E.164
number
4. The target zones associated with any matching search rules
are queried in rule priority order.
•
If a target zone is a neighbor zone, the neighbor is queried
for the E.164 number. If the neighbor supports ENUM
dialing, it may route the call itself.
•
If a target zone is an ENUM zone, the VCS attempts to
locate the endpoint through ENUM. As and when each
ENUM zone configured on the VCS is queried, the E.164
number is transformed into an ENUM domain as follows:
a. The digits are reversed and separated by a dot
b. The
DNS Suffix
configured for that ENUM zone is
appended.
5. DNS is then queried for the resulting ENUM domain.
6. If the DNS server finds at that ENUM domain a NAPTR record
that matches the transformed E.164 number (i.e. after it
has been reversed and separated by a dot), it returns the
associated URI to the VCS.
7. The VCS then initiates a new search for that URI (maintaining
the existing hop count). The VCS starts at the beginning of
the search process (i.e. applying any pre-search transforms,
then searching local and external zones in priority order).
From this point, as it is now searching for a SIP/H.323 URI,
the process for
URI dialing
is followed.
ENUM dialing for outgoing calls
Example
In this example, we want to call Fred at Example Corp. Fred’s
endpoint is actually registered with the URI
,
but to make it easier to contact him his system administrator
has configured a DNS NAPTR record mapping this alias to his
E.164 number:
+44123456789
.
We know that the NAPTR record for example.com uses the DNS
domain of
e164.arpa
.
1. We create an ENUM zone on our local VCS with a
DNS suffix
of
e164.arpa
.
2. We configure a search rule with a pattern match mode of
Any
Alias
, and set the
Target zone
to the ENUM zone. This means
that ENUM will always be queried regardless of the format of
the alias being searched for.
3. We dial
44123456789
from our endpoint.
4. The VCS initiates a search for a registration of
44 118 123
456
and the search rule of
Any Alias
means the ENUM zone
is queried. (Note that other higher priority searches could
potentially match the number first.)
5. Because the zone being queried is an ENUM zone, the VCS is
automatically triggered to transform the number into an ENUM
domain as follows:
a. the digits are reversed and separated by a dot:
9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.4.4
b. the
DNS Suffix
configured for this ENUM zone,
e164.arpa
,
is appended.
This results in a transformed domain of
9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1.4.4.e164.arpa
.
6. DNS is then queried for that ENUM domain.
7. The DNS server finds the domain and returns the information
in the associated NAPTR record. This tells the VCS that the
E.164 number we have dialed is mapped to the SIP URI of
.
8. The VCS then starts another search, this time for
. From this point the process for
URI dialing
is followed, and results in the call being forwarded
to Fred’s endpoint.