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Originate call to sip trunk via asterisk manager api java

So I am a total newbie in asterisk and managing call lines in general but I managed to install Asterisk Now 13 distro, I have connected 2 sip phones with pjsip and configured a sip trunk which works when I dial an external number with the corresponding prefix. Now I have to programmaticly originate calls and connect them to local extensions which I have no idea how to achieve and I cant seem to find much information about it on the internet after hours of searching.
I managed to connect 2 local sip phones with the asterisk manager api and OriginateAction in the following way:
originateAction = new OriginateAction();
originateAction.setChannel(ConnectionType+"/"+extCaller);
originateAction.setContext(context);
originateAction.setCallerId(idCaller);
originateAction.setExten(tDestination);
originateAction.setPriority(priority);
originateAction.setTimeout(timeoutCall);
managerConnection.login();
originateResponse = managerConnection.sendAction(originateAction, timeoutRequest);
I also tried this channel originate pjsip/201 extension number#from-ptsn and channel originate local/201#from-local extension number#trunkName .
The context of the PJSIP trunk is from-pstn,I tried using that in various ways without luck both in asterisk cli and the application.
How do I make it use the PJSIP trunk when originating the call and make a call out of the office?
EDIT: I originated an outgoing call using a number that completes with the trunk outgoing route requisites and the "from-internal" context like this:
channel originate Local/201#from-internal extension (prefix)numberToCall#from-internal
I still do not understand why this works and if it is the correct answer to my question.

So the answer is in the edit of the question. The only way to generate an outgoing call that I could find is to originate that call "internaly" (with the context "from-internal" which happens to be the same context that is used when originating internal calls) introducing a target number value that completes with the sip trunk's route pattern requirements.
Example:
I have a route configured for the sip trunk( trunk1 ) with a pattern(RegEx): [0]{1}/number/ that means that with a 0 infront of any nubmer it will be a valid value for that route and it will try to call using trunk1.
In the case of AsteriskNow CentOS installation it happens to be with the context "from-internal". Since the asterisk configuration files are owned by the FreePBX it is recomended to use the FreePBX GUI instead of configuring the .conf files of asterisk manualy.
That concludes to :
channel originate Local/201#from-internal extension (0)[numberToCall]#from-internal
Which will make the extension 201 ring first and when picked up it will try to use the sip trunk to dial that [numberToCall] because the route with the 0 is "called".
In order to send that command to asterisk using asterisk-java I wrote the following code:
ManagerConnectionFactory factory = new
ManagerConnectionFactory("serverIp", "username",
"passwd");
ManagerConnection managerConnection=factory.createManagerConnection()
OriginateAction originateAction=new OriginateAction();
final String randomUUID=java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString();
System.out.println("ID random:_"+randomUUID);
originateAction.setChannel([connectionType]+"/"+[callerExtension]);<-- SIP or PJSIP / 201(the phone that will ring first)
originateAction.setContext("from-internal"); <-- Default FreePBX context
originateAction.setCallerId([callerId]); // what will be showed on the phone screen (in most cases your phone)
originateAction.setExten([targetExten]); //where to call.. the target extension... internal extension or the outgoing number.. the 0[nomberToCall]
originateAction.setPriority([priority]);// priority of the call
originateAction.setTimeout(timeoutCall); // the time that a pickup event will be waited for
originateAction.setVariable("UUID", randomUUID); // asigning a unique ID in order to be able to hangup the call.

Trying to get InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostAddress (Java/Scala) to return external IP

So I'm having a problem with using InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostAddress to get the external IP address of a given machine.
I'm actually doing this in Scala in a sense - the configuration file for Akka Remote Actors default uses InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostAddress to get the IP address of the machine, which is what I want since I will be deploying the actors on several machines. However, it seems to be returning 127.0.0.1 instead of the external IP address I want (since the remote actors need to communicate back and forth across the netwrok).
The problem is that I can't use any of the methods I've found on Google to circumvent this since they all seem to involve adjusting the code itself, whereas here I don't really have any code to adjust, the DSL just automatically uses InetAddress.getLocalHost.getHostAddress.
I've read on a few threads from a Google search that you can circumvent this by editing your host file or something? How do I do this?
Thanks!
-kstruct

You may want to use NetworkInterface class.
In particular, use static getNetworkInterfaces method to enumerate all available network interfaces.

Check your /etc/hosts file. It should map 'localhost' to 127.0.0.1 and your real hostname to your real IP address, or one of them :-| Some Linux distributions get this wrong apparently.

i got a partial solution if getLocalHost doesn't works.
this solution have the problem that you must to know the name of your network interface in order to match the real one. Maybe you can improve this code removing "virtual" devices and something else.
This is scala code, but java code is very similar
def returnInterfaceAddress() : InetAddress = {
var myInetAddress = InetAddress.getLocalHost
val interfaces : util.Enumeration[NetworkInterface] = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces()
while(interfaces.hasMoreElements){
val inter = interfaces.nextElement()
if(inter.getDisplayName() == "Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller"){
myInetAddress = inter.getInetAddresses().nextElement()
}
}
myInetAddress
}

What is the easiest way to create a HostAndPort-Instance if the hostname is "localhost"?

I want to use the class HostAndPort from guava, to store a host and a port. What is the easiest way to create a valid HostAndPort-Instance, if the host is "localhost" and not "127.0.0.1" ?
It tried HostSpecifier.isValid(String) to validate the host, before i create a HostAndPort-Instance, but it returns false for "localhost". So in my case i can't use HostSpecifier, except i transform "localhost" to "127.0.0.1".
Is there an other way to validate a host name without a DNS-lookup?

java.net.InetAddress.getByName(String hostname) is the one. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/InetAddress.html
The local address lookups are done via lmhosts on windows if enabled and on linux/unix using name service switch config(/etc/nsswitch.conf) in order to check where to lookup first - files,dns,nis.... and so on (man nsswitch.conf). The java api call will resolve it depending on a system configuration.
EDIT:
you probably want to take a look at this library too
http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/
hope this helps abit.

How to figure out an IPv6 address (by name) of a host in my LAN

I have two computers plugged in the same router of a network which I know supports IPv6. Let's call them "PC-A" and "PC-B
I want "PC-A" to figure out "PC-B"s IPv6 address and vice-versa
The first thing I do is
setSystem.setProperty("java.net.preferIPv6Addresses", "true");
If I then say
InetAddress IPAddress = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
I can get my own address which will be in IpV6 format
However, neither of the following two statements gives me "PC-B"s IPv6 address:
Inet6Address IPAddress6 = (Inet6Address)InetAddress.getByName("PC-B");
InetAddress IPAddress = InetAddress.getByName("PC-B");
I also tried to import
import com.lavantech.net.dns.SimpleDNSLookup;
import com.lavantech.net.dns.DNSLookup
The first one I am using as:
SimpleDNSLookup d = new SimpleDNSLookup();
System.out.println(d.getInet6Address("PC-B"));
and the second one as:
DNSLookup dnsLookup = new DNSLookup("PC-B", DNSLookup.QTYPE_AAAA, DNSLookup.QCLASS_IN, 3000, null);
// Get all Address Records.
ResourceRecord[] ansRecords = dnsLookup.getAAAARecords();
System.out.println(ansRecords[0]);
none of which works.
I also tried to use the following
import org.xbill.DNS.*;
int type = Type.AAAA;
Name name = Name.fromString("PC-B");
Lookup lookup = new Lookup(name, type);
lookup.run();
int result = lookup.getResult();
Record[] answers = lookup.getAnswers();
System.out.println(answers[0]);
// (where, for brevity, i am skipping the parts where I check whether result == Lookup.SUCCESSFUL
Note that if I substitute "PC-B" for, say, "ipv6.google.com" I get all the desired results!
Also note that if I just use InetAddress and Type_A wherever applicable in the above approaches, my program returns "PC-B"s IPv4 address without problem.
What am I missing?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Your question is -unfortunately- a yet unsolved network problem dealing with host discovery on a local subnet (regardless if that subnet has a router or not).
Your desired output is clearly an IPv6 address, but it is unclear what exactly your input is.
Let's focus on PC-B. How exactly do you identify PC-B? It clear that you call it "PC-B", but that name should be configured somewhere before your PC know that that's its name. Where exactly is that configured? Is that the hostname you set on PC-B itself, or is there a domain name server (DNS) where you have given that name? If it is the name in the DNS system, you can indeed query the DNS system for the AAAA record to get the IPv6 address, but you need the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). E.g. "PC-B.yourdomain.com" rather than just "PC-B".
If you know the MAC address of PC-B, you can use the neighbour discovery protocol (NDP) to find out the IP address of PC-B.
There are network protocols that allow PC-A and PC-B to announce their names themselves, once you configured them on the local machines. Such protocols are called "service discovery" protocols, and your options here are (1) multicast DNS (mDNS) and possibly DNS service discovery (DNS-SD) on top of that; or (2) Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) in UPnP on the other hand. The advantage is that some operating systems already implement this. E.g. if PC-B is a Mac OS X host, all you need to do is query DNS for "pc-b.local" to get the answer. Unfortunately, while implementations of mDNS exist for Linux (Avahi) and Windows (Bonjour), they're not installed by default. A third alternative is to write your own host discovery protocol, and have your hosts run that protocol.
Considerations are which platforms you want to support, if installing third-party software is an option, if the discovery needs to be secure (the above options are not, look into Secure Neighbour Discovery -SEND- if this is a concern), and what input you have in the first place (the hostname "PC-B", or the type of service that runs on PC-B, e.g. _http._tcp for a webserver).

After Port Forwarding, how to get my external IP in Java?

I set up a static IP and did port forwarding on my notebook, and now I have a static IP address, but it's relatively static, every time I re-start the machine, I get another address, and since I have a "static" IP I can now do Paypal IPN messaging. But how can I get this static IP from my Java program ? One way I can think of is to visit : http://portforward.com/ and on that page it tells me what my external IP is, so I can extract it with Java code, is there any other way that I can do in my Java code to get this info ?

The best solution is probably dynamic DNS. Essentially, you run a program on your computer (or router) that notifies a DNS server when your IP changes. Then, you can just tell PayPal the domain name.

There is a public service you can call with your script to retrieve your external IP address. Bear in mind they have changed the link location once. If you control your own server, you should probably write your own PHP script to simply return the address of the caller to the script.
http://www.whatismyip.com/faq/automation.asp - follow the developers link they provide
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
URL myExternalIP = new URL("PUT THE LINK HERE");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
myExternalIP.openStream()));
String ip = in.readLine(); //you get the IP as a String
System.out.println(ip);
Your own server script is a simple one-liner. Create a file called whatismyip.php and here's the content.
<? echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']?>

I see three ways of doing this:
As you discovered, querying an external server what IP you're apparently connecting from. This is simple but you require such a service to be available and, usually, that no transparent proxy messes with your results.
IGD, a sub-protocol of UPnP can give you the result very easily if your port forwarding devices supports it (many do). Google "IGD JAVA" for libraries and samples.
Register for a dynamic DNS service and then lookup your own DNS name.

You can use the NetworkInterface class:
Enumeration<NetworkInterface> ifcs = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
while(ifcs.hasMoreElements()){
NetworkInterface ifc = ifcs.nextElement();
System.out.println("Adresses of: "+ifc.getDisplayName());
Enumeration<InetAddress> adresses = ifc.getInetAddresses();
while(adresses.hasMoreElements()){
System.out.println(adresses.nextElement().getHostAddress());
}
}
This snippet will show you all of the interfaces and the IPs bound to them. You will need to look through the list to find the appropriate interface (see also NetworkInterface.getByName(String name)) And then look at the addresses for that interface. Once you have found the appropriate InetAdress you can use that to get the string or byte representation.