Hi guys, Interesting discussion - I learnt quite a bit. Thanks.
That said, no one's yet answered my two original questions. Anyone know? To repeat: 1. When I used the line "dateformat=%F %T" in the general section of logger.conf, the format in /var/log/asterisk/full did change, but the round brackets around the date remained; the fail2ban/asterisk instructions I was following indicated that they should disappear when I do this. Is this an asterisk version issue (I'm using 1.4.21 - would 1.6 behave in the way described?), a Debian issue (seems unlikely), or something else? Is there some other way to get the round brackets to disappear? This is necessary to get fail2ban to read that file; otherwise, I'll have to log all asterisk NOTICEs through syslog. 2. With alwaysauthreject=yes and using deny= and permit= in sip.conf, attempts from denied IP addresses to register an extension are responded to (denying them, obviously), but not logged as a NOTICE (or anything else, as far as I can tell). Is there a way to enable this logging - or, alternatively, to get asterisk to simply ignore these requests rather than responding? I fully appreciate the frustration others feel re ending up paying for other people's attacks as part of their download limit, or even maxing out because of this. I'm lucky in that I haven't reached that volume yet - I'm with Zen Internet, and have a 50GB monthly limit, which I'm not using anywhere near all of. (that said, I did use 30GB last month, and suspect that the lion's share of that was from attacks, SIP reg or otherwise; this could certainly be an issue in the future.) Instead, my issue was with maxing out my *upload* bandwidth limit (currently only 448kbps), and hence having my whole connection screeching to a halt, with massive packet loss to other applications. At that point, not even (a sane amount of) money helps, as you can't buy a higher upload rate (aside from regrading to ADSL2+, which I'm looking into now). Thanks in advance, Nikhil. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users