We don't do residential service and require the few off-net customers to have a static IP. This makes using whitelists practical. That won't work for most people though.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Colin Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 2:39 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts Geoip works well to block all countries except your own Regards Andrew Colin-mobile Vsave(PTY)Ltd -------- Original message -------- From: Eric Wieling Date:19/01/2014 8:40 PM (GMT+02:00) To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts It is far worse when you have multiple phones behind the same public address (i.e. NAT). If any one of the phones has a bad password and the IP gets blocked by fail2ban, then all phones at that site would be blocked. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts On 19/1/14 2:57 pm, Ron Wheeler wrote: > fail2ban is so easy to set up, there is no reason not to set it up. One of the dangers with fail2ban - at least in its default configuration - is that a legitimate SIP phone with an incorrect password can quite easily send dozens of registration attempts in a couple of minutes, thus blocking that IP. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
