On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Damian Krzeminski <[email protected]> wrote:
> M. Ranganathan wrote:
>
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>
>>>> 1. Accept calls only from configured ITSP accounts.
>>>>
>>>> Not a very good solution. The problem of course is you have no control
>>>> over the ITSPs that your callers will pick. You will effectively
>>>> restrict inbound calls to only those ITSPs you know about and have
>>>> accounts with. Unfortunately we cannot authenticate inbound requests
>>>> from foreign domains ( defeats the whole purpose of unrestricted inbound
>>>> calling).
>>> I don't understand why you think that's unreasonable.  If I get my phone
>>> service from BT, I wouldn't expect that interface to get calls from
>>> NTT.
>>
>>
>> We can restrict it that way. However, the following call would not go 
>> through :
>>
>> Currently, if I know your public IP address, I can simply send an
>> INVITE to  num...@sipxbridge-public-ip-address and right now (i.e. in
>> sipxbridge today), that call will go through. You would not need to
>> have an account with any ITSP or even be calling from a phone to make
>> a call to sipxbridge. We will need to disallow this case as you state.
>>
>>
>> We are, however, missing some configuration soupport. We would need to
>> add some additional support in sipxconfig  for cases that do not
>> require registration but which do send INVITE from an  Inbound Proxy (
>> not the same as the  ITSP Registrar field that we have today).
>>
>> I have come across ITSPs that support redundancy where the IB proxy
>> can be one of a list of addresses (an example of such a setup would be
>> AT&T) which would require you to know all inbound proxy server
>> addresses so this would imply we need to support a list of such
>> addresses in the configuration field (AT&T does not support DNS SRV -
>> they directly use IP addresses for configuration).
>
> Is this really useful? How would administrator know what is the set of IP
> addresses that should be configured here? I suppose that misconfiguration
> here results in really erratic behaviour.

This list of addresses is provided through the service contract. I
think the AT&T account is a valid use case of this scenario.

1. No DNS SRV support
2. They give you a primary and secondary ITSP proxy server IP address
3. No Registration.



>
> If I do configure that - what do I really gain: after all in most cases
> it's much easier to reach my system directly ([email protected])
> rather than through my sipXbridge  (nu...@sipxbridge-public-ip-address)


This is a different scenario and one that we have decided not to
support anyway (per Scott's comments).


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