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Hi,
Are there any (or many) makes of hardware IP phone that allow you to
enter a text domain name, and then do a DNS to get the IP to call.

I've checked out the manual for the BudgeTone-100, and it only mentions text
encoding the first user@ part of the address.

It would seem to me useful, for example I could tell my customers with IP
phones that they could call me direct on Giving out a static
IP dosn't seem like a smart move incase I need to change my ISP.

Maybe I'm missing the point but the idea of direct IP calling seems to me
better than using a 3rd-party service like FWD.

Thanks

Ed

Ed:

Cisco phones support this. The FQDN can be an A record
or SRV record and point to a single phone or proxy
server.



Ed wrote:

>Hi,
> Are there any (or many) makes of hardware IP phone that allow you to
>enter a text domain name, and then do a DNS to get the IP to call.
>
>I've checked out the manual for the BudgeTone-100, and it only mentions text
>encoding the first user@ part of the address.
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>It would seem to me useful, for example I could tell my customers with IP
>phones that they could call me direct on Giving out a static
>IP dosn't seem like a smart move incase I need to change my ISP.
>
>Maybe I'm missing the point but the idea of direct IP calling seems to me
>better than using a 3rd-party service like FWD.
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>Thanks
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>Ed
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