[asterisk-users] Bufferbloat! Friday on VUC @ 12 Noon EST

2011-01-27 Thread Randy R
Hi all, What is Bufferbloat? http://gettys.wordpress.com/bufferbloat-faq/ Maybe this kind of discussion will bring out the John Todds of this world, I can only hope and dream: Bufferbloat: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/bufferbloat/ Call in and talk to Jim Gettys, who co-developed X

[asterisk-users] iNum at 12 Noon EST Friday

2011-01-20 Thread Randy R
Hi, Tomorrow, our discussion is around iNum with lots of interesting people chiming in, including the Voxbone people who manage the space. If you ever wondered about iNum and why you might care about it, how it works, who offers it and who actually uses it, here's a chance to find out more. Join

Re: [asterisk-users] Callback form to place on site for customers. Recomendation to achieve this.

2011-01-02 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, JP CR jprollersk...@hotmail.com wrote: I want to place a form on my site so customers can recieve an mmediate callback and the PBX should connect them to a cell sales agent. Are there anfree modules available for this, or one should code this from scratch?

[asterisk-users] Today at 12 Noon EST

2010-12-24 Thread Randy R
Hi, Lots of VoIP, SIP and Asterisk-related discussion and some free phones and Polycom software today, join us at the usual place: http://www.voipusersconference.org Call sip:200...@login.zipdx.com Skype:vuc.me (via Skype for Asterisk and PhonefromHere.com) Listen Live 16khz mp3 Stream:

[asterisk-users] [OT] Any comments on Comcast and Level 3 story this week?

2010-12-02 Thread Randy R
Hi, Lots of news about Comcast and Level 3 this week, here's a sample: http://vuc.li/hUsQrd We're hoping to attract some knowledgeable participants - that's why I'm posting here - to chat about this on the VUC. Please consider joining us to contribute what you know, starting sometime between

[asterisk-users] IPv6: What You Need to Know Now

2010-11-24 Thread Randy R
Yes, the thanksgiving holiday is here (in the USA)! But also, the fear of running out of IP addresses next year has raised its ugly head and since we don't do Thanksgiving in Europe, we have some serious talking to do about this problem. This Friday at 12 Noon EST, Olle Johansson will be joining

[asterisk-users] Friday @12 Noon EST: PhonoSDK from Voxeo Labs

2010-11-10 Thread Randy R
Topic: Phono and Phono SDK, an exciting development you can read about at http://phono.com You can learn all about the technical aspects of Phono and the SDK Friday with Chris Matthieu, but here are a couple of interesting implementations that don't require much effort to show a proof-of-concept:

[asterisk-users] SIP Communicator Friday at 12 Noon EDT

2010-10-28 Thread Randy R
Friday we'll be hearing about SIP Communicator Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client. SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour,

[asterisk-users] [OT] Friday funny

2010-10-24 Thread Randy R
-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Kunz munged Been there, many, many times. http://xkcd.com/806/ Look at this comic, you will laugh, I guarantee it! Thanks Peter! -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided

[asterisk-users] Counterpath Presence Patent and Android VoIP app

2010-10-21 Thread Randy R
Is it already Friday? This week Counterpath has two big stories. Todd Carrothers, VP Product Management and Mike Doyle, VP Technology will be on board to tell us more about these two developments and to answer your questions on VUC at 12 noon EDT. 1) Counterpath was granted a patent (#

[asterisk-users] Friday 12 Noon EDT: VoIP Abuse Project

2010-09-30 Thread Randy R
By popular request, we've convinced someone from the VoIP Abuse Project to join us tomorrow at noon on VUC. I think many of you will be interested in this topic, so please come by, join in and ask questions. http://vuc.me for all connection info and links to VoIP Abuse Project A couple of other

Re: [asterisk-users] misc newbie VoIP questions

2010-09-27 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Rogelio scubac...@gmail.com wrote: Please excuse the ignorance of these questions.  (I still have yet to install and configure a VoIP solution.)  Depending on the feasibility of some of these questions, I was going to try my hand at installing something... It

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Gigaset C470IP - How to access SMS settings

2010-09-15 Thread Randy R
On the S675IP SMS is here: Messaging - SMS - Settings -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Gigaset C470IP - How to access SMS settings

2010-09-15 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Olivier oza_4...@yahoo.fr wrote: On the S675IP SMS is here: Messaging - SMS - Settings No SMS entry is showing on Settings/Messaging page, here. How did you set your S675IP ? Did you use any autoconfiguration or country menu ? We don't use SMS on

Re: [asterisk-users] How to send SMS to Gigaset phones ?

2010-09-13 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Olivier wrote: how to send SMS to Gigaset phones ? I dimly recall someone doing this and publishing a page of script... but where? Look using Google back from 2004-2008 something like sms

Re: [asterisk-users] SMS and fixed land lines

2010-09-06 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Administrator TOOTAI ad...@tootai.net wrote: As stated by Philipp, SMSC is unique. However -in France at least- SMS sended to landlines are altered and sended as voice messages by the operators. For messages from Orange you will recognize that's a SMS as the

Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban integration issues with Asterisk 1.4.21 under Debian Lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: 3) Contact the UPSTREAM of the attacking host? Yes. No reply. And in the few times I've tried, I've only ever had a reply from Amazon - some 18 hours after the flood started and then it took another 12 hours

Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban integration issues with Asterisk 1.4.21 under Debian Lenny

2010-08-31 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: Their whole system is designed as a device to waste the time effort of those trying to submit reports, etc. to them. This is not the right list for the following comment, but vested interests always ruin life.

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk + openBTS

2010-08-19 Thread Randy R
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/08/10 18:20, equis software wrote: I want to know about asterisk and openBTS This island runs it's GSM network on OpenBTS: http://www.niueisland.com/ This was the place he presented about. Read the blog

[asterisk-users] VUC Friday 13th: Skype, then Video

2010-08-12 Thread Randy R
This Friday, August 13th, two sessions: 12 Noon EDT : FREETALK Connect appliance puts Skype on every phone in your office. 1 PM EDT : With the help of Polycom and Blink Mind, we'll be doing a video conference test for VUC. All the connect and guest info is here: http://vuc.me Jump on IRC

[asterisk-users] Allison Smith Hilarity

2010-08-09 Thread Randy R
Greetings and salutations Asterisk community, I've been contacted by a man who has generously posted some prompts he commissioned from Allison Smith. If you haven't heard Allison in humor mode, you owe it to yourself to hear this. Joey Lindstrom has decided to place these in the public domain and

Re: [asterisk-users] FYI: Seen the 2600Hz announcement?

2010-08-03 Thread Randy R
We should be hearing more on this from Darren either this Friday or next on VUC. http://vuc.me /r -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory

Re: [asterisk-users] fail2ban does not work for my asterisk installation

2010-08-01 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:27 PM, mosbah abdelkader mosbah.abdelka...@gmail.com wrote: The failregex statement in my jail.conf file is: Aren't the regex supposed to be in filters/myjail.conf ? Are you testing the regex with the fail2ban-regex client? Maybe you need to avoid some of the quotes

Re: [asterisk-users] VUC Friday: Twilio OpenVBX

2010-07-30 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Alex Bell voicese...@gmail.com wrote: /r,     r u not on talkshoe anymore? This is 2 weeks in a row that I've clicked in, but no one was home? At least last week I was one of 2 guests, today I was all by my lonesome... :( Hi Alex, When I'm not in my own

[asterisk-users] VUC Friday: Twilio OpenVBX

2010-07-29 Thread Randy R
Interesting offering, free from Twilio, this is php you install on your own server to build a brandable VBX. Worth checking out! Listen to tomorrow for more about this and talk to lead engineer or Twilio CEO if you have any questions; sip:200...@login.zipdx.com or Skype:vuc.me IRC: #vuc on

[asterisk-users] [OT] fail2ban and pf

2010-07-28 Thread Randy R
Hi, Since f2b is one of the topics du jour here, I was wondering if someone would mind telling me what these pf stats mean: Evaluations: 964303 Packets: 12176 Bytes: 648408 States: 0 Looks like pf examined nearly a million cases from fail2ban in 24h? thanks, /r --

Re: [asterisk-users] [OT] fail2ban and pf

2010-07-28 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Kyle Kienapfel doctor.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Randy R randulo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since f2b is one of the topics du jour here, I was wondering if someone would mind telling me what these pf stats mean: Evaluations: 964303

Re: [asterisk-users] Urgent help = RUBY AGI

2010-07-27 Thread Randy R
Hi, I missed the beginning of this thread but you or anyone else looking for help with Ruby + Asterisk should contact Jason Goecke (@jsgoecke on Twitter or if you don't do Twitter you can look for contact info there http://twitter.com/gsgoecke). Jason probably knows as much about that world as

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Amazon Web Services

2010-07-27 Thread Randy R
Kyle Kienapfel wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Roderick A. Anderson raand...@cyber-office.net wrote: Anyone tried installing Asterisk in a AWS server? I'd think twice about trying this, taking into account the recent spate of attacks to so many of us coming from Amazon EC2 and

Re: [asterisk-users] No audio using xlite

2010-07-26 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Janu Mukherjee janu.mu...@gmail.com wrote: I installed asterisk server in my linux box. I configured a user 1000 using xlite and registered with asterisk server in the same linux box. I Where on the network is this box? configured one more user 1001 in other

Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban - SuSEfirewall

2010-07-26 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Brent A. Torrenga li...@torrenga.com wrote: I have tried to setup fail2ban on a machine running OpenSuSE 11.  Everything looks fine, except the machine restarts the firewall whenever the DHCP lease is renewed, thus flushing all the fail2ban rules (I think…). 

Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban - SuSEfirewall

2010-07-26 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM, John Novack jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org wrote: Why isn't the Asterisk box on a static IP on the LAN? That seems to be asking for trouble using DHCP. I was assuming he meant the ISP DHCP renewal. /r --

[asterisk-users] Today on VUC: SIP-Aware Appliances to facilitate communications

2010-07-16 Thread Randy R
Hi, Our guest today is Steven Johnson, President of Ingate Systems. We'll talk with him about the changing role of Session Border Controllers and E-SBC and how this hardware facilitates the use of SIP in difficult conditions, about general SIP security considerations, and why you might need such

[asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
Many of you are interested in and have used or recommended fail2ban for your linux boxes. I finally installed it on our FreeBSD server (no asterisk, hence the OT) with the help of a friend from the VoIP Users Conference and Asterisk community. After a lot of new learning about regex, I extended

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, dotnetdub dotnet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Randy, How many users are on this 'domain'? Google Apps Free is a great solution for upto 50 users with 7.6GB per user. Their spam filtering usually does the job for our customers. Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I'm

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: What I do, is only open port 25 to the list of ips of the spam filtering service -- I use an iptables script called rc.firewall which I found several years ago which works well and has a nice syntax for this and I get no direct

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: What you can do -- I don't know about nomad, but can you make them use authentication? They do identify, but they have to connect first :) -- _ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:58 PM, A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 13 Jul 2010, Randy R wrote: I was thinking of closing port 25 and using an alternate port (587?) setup if the spam service is able to connect to an alternate port. That way, the users can also change

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
Hi Gordon, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: Technically/pedantically, users ought to be connecting to port 587 to submit their email anyway, with port 25 being reserved for MTA to MTA communications, so block 25 for everyone but the MX

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: fail2ban, spam and mail servers

2010-07-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: Good luck! A few have written me off list (thanks) so I thought I'd close out my own thoughts on this. It's been about two hours and it does look like things are working great. I removed the huge number of

Re: [asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

2010-07-05 Thread Randy R
Has anyone mentioned Teraterm in this thread? I know it's very old but I also know it worked well with XP. I preferred it over Putty, but I haven't used Putty in years either. Nowadays, I use mostly Mac with occasional virtual XP - and the OS X terminal is great. It's a little surprising that no

Re: [asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

2010-07-05 Thread Randy R
PS: http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/ I'm pretty sure there was a last update or patch or something because -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live

Re: [asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

2010-07-05 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com wrote: Teraterm only supports the old, insecure and much less capable ssh1 protocol, IIRC. Many recent SSHDs disable ssh1 support nowadays. Don't use it. I'm pretty sure there was a last update or patch or something because

Re: [asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

2010-07-05 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Kyle Kienapfel doctor.w...@gmail.com wrote: Whats different about teraterm compared to putty? I know back in the day I used to send files to my linux box with xmodem over ssh. Does this newer version do that? :) THe next time I turn on the XP box, I'll try to

[asterisk-users] VoIP Users Conference Recordings

2010-07-03 Thread Randy R
Hi, Alistair Cunningham of Integrics was our guest yesterday. We talked about Integrics new product Geons, a suite of software for building large-scale distributed enterprise applications. The recorded session is now available here: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/geons/ The extremely

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-07-01 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Kyle Kienapfel doctor.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-manager/ Currently, we're expecting a suggested charge of between €2 to €10 per seat/month. Whoops, *grabs a napkin* And that is in addition to the per channel charge of

Re: [asterisk-users] [CRON] Right way to restart Asterisk and Zaptel?

2010-06-25 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: Hello About every three months, my dad's little Asterisk server that handles his business phone line with an OpenVox PCI card stops taking calls. To check if it's the cause, I'd like to run a CRON job every night to restart

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Bandwidth calculations

2010-06-25 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Gareth Blades list-aster...@skycomuk.com wrote: For a web server this is probably a good start but would depend on how spiky your bandwidth graphs are. You might want to lower the speed if The max in the past 24 was 140MB an hour, but I've seen up to 240MB in

Re: [asterisk-users] [CRON] Right way to restart Asterisk and Zaptel?

2010-06-25 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:53:34 +0200, Randy R randulo2...@gmail.com once a week or once a month or some interval that you're comfortable with. We used to do this for a similar reason. Right, but he won't remember to do

Re: [asterisk-users] [CRON] Right way to restart Asterisk and Zaptel?

2010-06-25 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: Sorry for the misunderstanding. So I can just run reboot from a CRON job then. From root's cron, yes -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] Friday at 1PM: SIPVicious has a new tool: svcrash

2010-06-24 Thread Randy R
Hi, Got some great news a few days ago from Sandro Gauci (@SandroGauci) and we'll be talking about this with him this Friday at 1PM. SIPVicious, the free security tools for SIP scanning, now include a new tool: svcrash. It is aimed at helping system administrators stop bandwidth consuming scans

[asterisk-users] OT: Bandwidth calculations

2010-06-24 Thread Randy R
Hi, I know some of you are very experienced as to the working of networks. I wondered whether there is some accepted way of determining bandwidth needs based on the network traffic over time. For example, looking at the figures for the network traffic through the server interface, we have

[asterisk-users] Friday June 18th at 12 Noon EDT: Session Border Controllers, 1PM Bria iPhone SIP app

2010-06-18 Thread Randy R
This week our guest at 12 noon EDT (http://vuc.me/next for your local time) is Acme Packet, maker of Session Border Controllers. We look forward to learning more about these. Join in G722 wideband by calling sip:200...@login.zipdx.com starting just before 12 Noon EDT or Skype:vuc.me or see

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-16 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Michael Graves mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: Some distro's, like Askozia and Astlinux, have been specifically engineered around running from flash media. This basic form of operation has been well proven in projects like monowall and pfsense. I think you hit the

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-16 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: pretty much giving up on Skype for Asterisk (and Skype for SIP) now that I realize that they'll be charging a monthly fee that is disproportionately high compared to my need to let Skype users call us. We'll know the

Re: [asterisk-users] Skype for SIP

2010-06-15 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Thomas Kenyon dig...@sanguinarius.co.uk wrote: On 15/6/10 06:22, Randy R wrote: In October, they will begin charging for Skype Manager (required for SfS) and a per seat charge for that. SfA also requires Skype Manager, and only works with users that were

[asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-14 Thread Randy R
Hi, I'm looking to build an Asterisk box that can run at a remote location. Here are most of the specs of what I'm looking for: Physical hardware * Small pre-built PC (not buying board, case, all parts separately) * Low power consumption * No fan or very small fan * Hard drive

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-14 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Chris Bagnall aster...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: We've used the Asus eeeBox (desktop version of their little netbooks) quite successfully in past projects: Atom 1.6, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Wow, we used to benefit from the space program that handed down technologies

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-14 Thread Randy R
good stuff snipped Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Is it feasable to run Skype for Asterisk on the Atom processors? It's a feature I'd really like to have. As for conferencing, we rarely use it but never would need more than 3 seats. for you top posters, the good stuff would have been

[asterisk-users] Skype for Asterisk - what processors/platforms does it run on?

2010-06-14 Thread Randy R
I understand that SfA is a binary module? There are processors it will not work on, correct? Are there limits as to operating system or distros? tia, /r -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com

[asterisk-users] Skype for SIP

2010-06-14 Thread Randy R
By the way, I am currently testing this product from Skype. I would like to be able to receive calls ona Skype name on our pbx. 1) It works beautifully and you don't have to do anything in particular. 2) It's disproportionally expensive which is why I want Skype for Asterisk to work. SfS costs

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6.2.7 + app_fax + OpenBSD 4.7 minor issue

2010-06-06 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Kevin P. Fleming kpflem...@digium.com wrote: The message is labeled WARNING, which means it is not an error. This can be ignored, unless you are actually experiencing a problem. What dedication, Kevin! First, it's Sunday. Second you're enjoying AMOOCON with

Re: [asterisk-users] HElP me I am a beginner

2010-06-02 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:57 AM, prashant shrestha prashantshres...@live.com wrote: I am completely new to the asterisk so can any one help me with it as I have some questions queries Welcome to the Asterisk community, Prashant 1. first n for most what are the tools/equipment that I need  for

[asterisk-users] Asterisk-based Incredible PBX

2010-05-27 Thread Randy R
Hi all, Today at 12 Noon EDT (9AM PDT, 5PM UK, 6PM Western Europe) the VUC welcomes Ward Mundy from http://NerdVittles.com who will introduce us to Incredible PBX, an Asterisk-based, easy-to-deploy PBX. Rather than start a long chain of features here,we invite you to join us live (see below) or

[asterisk-users] Friday @12 Noon and 1PM

2010-05-20 Thread Randy R
This week on VUC: 12 Noon EDT: Office KONNECT - phones that can connect to asterisk or be used without a pbx 1 PM EDT: Dan York on his new book 7 Deadliest UC Attacks and the usual segments of VoIP and Asterisk news, and the VUC 1 minute rant. Info: http://vuc.me Conference bridges are active

Re: [asterisk-users] R: new way of asterisk and kamailio (openser) realtime integration

2010-05-17 Thread Randy R
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Fred Posner f...@teamforrest.com wrote: Same problem here. ---fred On May 17, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Alexandru Oniciuc wrote: kb.asipto.com isn't reachable: DNS doesn't resolve the domain name. Alex I see the DNS resolving on our Virginia server but not here

Re: [asterisk-users] RTP ports

2010-05-03 Thread Randy R
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: In my installation, netstat usually indicates 4 ports per extension, so my assumption is that you would need 40 ports or a range of 1-10039. Sounds reasonable, I was going to suggest 100 would easily do, but an actual

Re: [asterisk-users] RTP ports

2010-05-03 Thread Randy R
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Philipp von Klitzing klitz...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: so my assumption is that you would need 40 ports or a range of 1-10039. Sounds reasonable, I was going to suggest 100 would easily do, but an actual measured value is even

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-05-01 Thread Randy R
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- ux...@splatnix.net wrote: Slammed again last night by a A-WS server; see if anything comes back from their abuse department! FWIW, I chose another provider for our most recent customer who needed cloud hosting, only because of the EC2 flood

[asterisk-users] Friday 12 Noon EDT: Media5fone Mobile SIP Client Symbian S60 iPhone

2010-04-29 Thread Randy R
Hi, If I was going to post this as an iPhone-only SIP client, I'd expect loud booing and hissing, but Media5 mobile SIP client is available for the Symbian S60 platform, too, or will be shortly. Interested? To join us and hear about Media5 form Pascal Dore, see http://vuc.me Speaking of mobile,

[asterisk-users] VUC Friday: Bill Miller, former VP of Product Management

2010-04-23 Thread Randy R
Our guest today has a long and interesting background in network and VoIP technologies as well as having been at the head of Digium's product management: Bill @beelinebill Miller. To join us and hear (and talk to) Bill, see http://vuc.me You can call sip:200...@login.zipdx.com in g722 wideband

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-21 Thread Randy R
Amazon is pretty clever! Ever seen V on TV? Amazon talks a pretty good game out of one side of their PR mouthpiece, but as a few of you note above, they abuse words like quickly and temper everything with when Amazon determines. This is a PR damage control statement. It means they are hearing

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-21 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Fred Posner f...@teamforrest.com wrote: On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Frank Bulk wrote: Please take note of their posting:      https://aws.amazon.com/security/ which discusses the issue and what they're doing to

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-21 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Steve Murphy m...@parsetree.com wrote: Assuming that every such spamming/hacking/attack site is funded on a stolen identity/CC number, it will soon sink into Amazon that they are getting a bad rep, and losing money on such problems, as all such charges are

Re: [asterisk-users] Evaluating Asterisk

2010-04-19 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ted Foote t...@abscollect.com wrote: I am thinking of moving from a traditional PBX to an asterisk box. Many of my leadership group are skeptical of asterisk. So I was hoping to find a call center that is currently using this technology that would not mind

[asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
Hi, We all know most people are reporting that Amazon hasn't been helpful at all. A few people say they've received answers, but most are getting smoke screen PR BS. You can vote this up on Slashdot, send the message: SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed: http://bit.ly/bOkNNx Send this

Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com wrote: It seems that at least Slashdot is responsive: http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/04/17/2059256/SIP-Attacks-From-Amazon-EC2-Going-Unaddressed Yes, there's a lot of talk here, some of it sympathetic, some less so, but

Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Stuart Sheldon s...@actusa.net wrote: I a related question, if the IP addresses were spoofed, how could a response be directed back? Don't the register attempts, because they If the IP addresses were spoofed, it would be simply a DoS attack. This is what I

Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Stuart Sheldon s...@actusa.net wrote: For what it's worth, here is my Blog Article from the incident... http://www.stuartsheldon.org/blog/2010/04/sip-brute-force-attack-originating-from-amazon-ec2-hosts/ Saw it early on Stu, and quoted your excellent summary:

Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Fred Posner f...@teamforrest.com wrote: There's also a link to it from the VoIP Tech Chat article. And we are also linking to Fred's original story which says it all about Amazon: http://www.voiptechchat.com/voip/457/amazon-ec2-sip-brute-force-attacks-on-rise/

Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon EC2 SIP floods - you can help

2010-04-18 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Just a thought or my worst nightmare.  i wonder if it isn't a hyperkit / hyperrootkit.  A malicious variant of BluePill on a Virtual Machine that can spread through all other VM's on a machine because it becomes the

[asterisk-users] Friday April 16 @12 Noon EDT - Tim's Excellent Island Telephony Adventure, AstriEurop, and more EC2 rant

2010-04-16 Thread Randy R
Hey, This week I return from AstriEurop and I'm lucky because I left yesterday, many of my Asterisk friends are stranded because of the air and rail strikes that got worse today. I will mention a few things I think are interesting from my meetings there and hope a few others will make it and

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2

2010-04-13 Thread Randy R
I worked with Project Honeypot guys for a while, they are more than willing to assist, as they already have the backend work done for a clearing house identifying hackers.  The biggest issue we had a year ago was to create the mechanism in asterisk to push valid log messages out to the

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-13 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Darrick Hartman dhart...@djhsolutions.com wrote: That only addresses EC2 (and assumes that Amazon has any interest in protecting their reputation).  What about attacks that come from other locations?  Granted it's pretty easy to buy time on an EC2 server so

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-13 Thread Randy R
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Steve Murphy m...@parsetree.com wrote: Hmmm. It would seem that it would be to Amazon's advantage to jump on this problem, I am pushing for this, please everyone who is suffering from this problem, submit it or write to complain to Amazon and post the message

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-12 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria zisha...@gmail.com wrote: If RBL or something is practical, I'm in too. But at what level these hackers will be blocked? Unless some big ISPs cooprate, it is not much of use. I've been following this with much interest. I don't see RBL (which I

Re: [asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

2010-04-12 Thread Randy R
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Darrick Hartman dhart...@djhsolutions.com wrote: I don't think anyone else brought up the Spamhaus DROP project.  It's a blacklist of IP addresses and address ranges which are known to ONLY be used for malicious purposes. http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/

[asterisk-users] Friday Apr 9th 2010 @ 12 Noon EDT: More Cloud Telephony

2010-04-09 Thread Randy R
Today, Chris Matthieu, Founder CEO of GetVocal, entered the cloud-based communications market in February, with its launch of Teleku. Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound

Re: [asterisk-users] Anyone coming to Paris next week for AstriEurope?

2010-04-07 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Matthew Fredrickson cres...@digium.com wrote: I'll be there... For those that don't know me, I work a lot on chan_dahdi/libss7/libpri/DAHDI.  I'm not sure what my schedule is going to be like there, but I'd love to hear about any meetups that may happen if I can

[asterisk-users] Anyone coming to Paris next week for AstriEurope?

2010-04-06 Thread Randy R
Several regulars from the VUC will be there, some of us are arriving Tuesday night. Anyone else considering the trip? Post here or contact me off list so we can meet. /r -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] Anyone coming to Paris next week for AstriEurope?

2010-04-06 Thread Randy R
I'll be there but I don't know exactely when 'cause I'll at Paris this week for my Microsoft course If you're on Twitter, follow @voipusers if you want to keep in touch or email me if you prefer. /r -- _ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] Press release: Virtual Communication Clouds :: New feature in Asterisk 1.8

2010-04-01 Thread Randy R
We were hoping voicemail would become Tweets and that Tweets from your bathroom scale could be sent as audio using calls files. I guess that will be the next minor version? /r -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] Live Audio Streaming- From Aux interface-Online resource

2010-03-31 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:17 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: OK, I see, but what I would really like to do is the opposite -- stream an internet stream into a call or a meetme conference -- what would be the best way on how to do that? And (hijacking thread with related question) I'd like to

Re: [asterisk-users] Live Audio Streaming- From Aux interface-Online resource

2010-03-31 Thread Randy R
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Philipp von Klitzing klitz...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Start here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+ices Thanks, Philipp -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided

[asterisk-users] [VUC] Voipathon 24-hour online party begins in 30 mintes

2010-03-26 Thread Randy R
To celebrate three years of the VoIP Users Conference, we're doing a 24-hour VoIP conference call today. Details are at http://voipathon.org IRC: #vuc on Freenode.net SIP: voipat...@vuc.onsip.com - Enter 22622# and your PIN# if you have no PIN you can listen using 1# iNum - +883 51007 039

Re: [asterisk-users] Do i really need Dahdi and Libpri.

2010-03-21 Thread Randy R
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Daniel Leite de Abreu dlab...@gmail.com wrote: Hy guys i am having so much hard time to setup asterisk on a virtual machine that i got , i just want to know if i really need to use Dahdi and libpri on a complete Digital PBX i just gonna use sip and iax. I

[asterisk-users] SIP Router Project

2010-03-18 Thread Randy R
Hello, This Friday on VUC, the SIP Router Project, Kamailio 3.0 will be discussed with a couple experts. Your questions are welcome, as always. See the site: http://vuc.me for ways to phone in. For the best sound, use g722 and call 200...@login.zipdx.com at 12 Noon Eastern. See

[asterisk-users] Fri March 12th @ 12 noon EST: SIP scanning, security and attacks + Hosted vs on-site voip

2010-03-12 Thread Randy R
Hi all, Today's jam-packed sessions include the security theme for the first hour or so, then a debate about hosted vs local VoIP services. Hour one guests are Sjur Usken, telecom consultant who has been working with VoIP since 2002 and helping companies migrate to an all IP world and Sandro

[asterisk-users] Voip Users Conference March 26th

2010-03-08 Thread Randy R
24 hours of VUC and a chance for those of you in Asia and the Southern Hemisphere to join us at least once live at a decent time! On the third birthday of the VUC (formerly Asterisk Users Conference) we will be on the air for 24 consecutive hours beginning at 3AM EDT Friday on on through the next

Re: [asterisk-users] : PSTN calls

2010-02-26 Thread Randy R
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Aditya Kumar adityakumar...@yahoo.com wrote: can any please suggest me which Hardware card that I can buy? and use ( pl give me all ths list of cards which are good.). Here is a starting list of Asterisk hardware http://bit.ly/a6yX6h --

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