-----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of jon pounder Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:24 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] FW: Under heavy attack
> > I'm still on old-fashion copper-wire and "have yet to experience the joy" of > SIP Trunk-"ing" and the type of issues discussed in this thread. My thought > to share here is that outgoing calls should be "easy" for thoroughly > authenticated users and impossible for others... > > Probably more can-o-worms than help. Sorry if this is so. > > > nothing new here, this is just the digital equivalent of a wats line with a weak access code for outbound access. the difference is code guessing can be a lot more aggressive now, and finding the inbound path is simpler. ================== Each system needs to be configured according to its purpose and needs. Simply these are phone systems, not e-mail or web servers. You may want to be able to get mail from (almost) anywhere in the world, same for web services. But for a phone system you may have very different needs. One can visualize the differences between a national or international VOIP provider, a 4 person office in Little Rock, AR, a local SIP provider in Houston, TX and an international sales company with offices in Rome Italy. A small sip system used with an upstream VOIP provider should be invisible to 99.9999% of the world's population. (Excepting any other trusted peers.) If there was a wide spread peering network and an individual system wanted/needed to access and be accessed like email then it would be a different world. We could all be robo-call spammed just like email. :-( But leaving small systems open for attack from 99.9999 percent of the world is just begging for trouble. Cary Fitch -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
