diff -Naurp apps/app_notify.c apps/app_notify.c
--- apps/app_notify.c	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ apps/app_notify.c	2007-11-12 00:46:52.556872944 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+/*
+ * Asterisk -- A telephony toolkit for Unix.
+ *
+ * Network Notification Application Module for Asterisk
+ *
+ * Copyright (c)2005,2006 mezzoCONSULT C.B. 
+ *           Sven Slezak <sunny@mezzo.net>
+ * Version: 2.0rc1 (Jan 29.2007)
+ * http://www.mezzo.net/asterisk
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include <asterisk/options.h>
+#include <asterisk/file.h>
+#include <asterisk/logger.h>
+#include <asterisk/channel.h>
+#include <asterisk/pbx.h>
+#include <asterisk/module.h>
+#include <asterisk/astdb.h>
+#include <asterisk/lock.h>
+#include <asterisk/config.h>
+#include <asterisk/utils.h>
+
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <netinet/in.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+#include <netdb.h>
+#include <sys/time.h> /* select() */ 
+
+#define AST_MODULE "app_notify"
+
+#define DEFAULT_PORT 40000
+
+int notify(const char *text, const char *host, int port);
+
+
+static char *app = "Notify";
+static char *synopsis = "network notification application";
+
+static char *descrip =
+  "  Notify(text/hostname_or_ip[:port]): \n"
+  "   sends the text to the given hosts.\n"
+  "   Always returns 0.\n";
+
+static int notify_exec (struct ast_channel *chan, void *data)
+{
+  int arglen, port;
+  char *argv, *text, *host, *tmp;
+	struct ast_module_user *u;
+
+	if(!data) {
+		ast_log (LOG_ERROR, "Requires parameters\n");
+		return -1;
+	}        
+	u = ast_module_user_add(chan);
+
+  arglen = strlen(data);
+  argv = alloca(arglen + 1);
+  if(!argv) {
+    ast_log (LOG_ERROR, "Memory allocation failed\n");
+		ast_module_user_remove(u);
+		return -1;
+  }
+  memcpy (argv, data, arglen + 1);
+
+  if(strchr(argv, '/')) {
+    text = strsep(&argv, "/");
+    host = strsep(&argv, "\0");
+    if (!text || !host) {
+      ast_log (LOG_ERROR, "Ignoring: Syntax error in argument\n");
+			ast_module_user_remove(u);
+			return -1;
+    } 
+    if(strchr(host, ':')) {
+      tmp = strsep(&host, ":");
+      port = atoi(strsep(&host, "\0"));
+      host = tmp;
+    } else {
+      port = DEFAULT_PORT;
+    }
+  } else {
+    ast_log (LOG_ERROR, "Ignoring: Wrong parameters\n");
+		ast_module_user_remove(u);
+		return -1;
+  }
+
+  notify(text, host, port);
+	ast_module_user_remove(u);
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int notify(const char *text, const char *host, int port) 
+{
+  int sock;
+  int broadcast = 1;
+  struct sockaddr_in servAddr;
+  struct hostent *hp;
+  struct ast_hostent ahp;
+
+  if(option_verbose > 2)
+    ast_verbose (VERBOSE_PREFIX_3 "Notify: sending '%s' to %s:%d \n", text, host, port);
+
+  if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP)) < 0) {
+    ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "cannot open socket\n");
+    return -1;
+  }
+
+  if(setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &broadcast, sizeof(broadcast)) < 0) {
+    ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "setsockopt error.\n");
+  }
+
+  memset(&servAddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
+  servAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
+  servAddr.sin_port = htons(port);
+
+  if((servAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(host)) == -1) {
+    hp = ast_gethostbyname(host, &ahp);
+    if(hp == (struct hostent *)0) {
+      ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "unknown host: %s\n", host);
+      return -1;
+    }
+    memcpy(&servAddr.sin_addr, hp->h_addr_list[0], hp->h_length);
+  }  
+
+  if (sendto(sock, text, strlen(text)+1, 0, (struct sockaddr *)&servAddr, sizeof(servAddr)) < 0) {
+    ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "cannot send text\n");
+    close(sock);
+    return -1;
+  }
+
+  close(sock);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static int unload_module(void)
+{
+	ast_module_user_hangup_all(); 
+	return ast_unregister_application(app);
+}
+
+static int load_module(void)
+{
+	return ast_register_application(app, notify_exec, synopsis, descrip);
+}
+
+AST_MODULE_INFO_STANDARD(ASTERISK_GPL_KEY, "network notification function for Asterisk extension logic.");