[asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Howes
Hi, Given the recent increase in SIP brute force attacks, I've had a little idea. The standard scripts that block after X attempts work well to prevent you actually being compromised, but once you've been 'found' then the attempts seem to keep coming for quite some time. Older versions of

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Latham
Always start here... http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ If the AS is stolen, you can block the network and never have to worry about it... ~ Andrew lathama Latham lath...@gmail.com * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Steve Howes wrote: Hi, Given the recent increase in SIP brute force attacks, I've had a little idea. The standard scripts that block after X attempts work well to prevent you actually being compromised, but once you've been 'found' then the attempts seem to keep

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Latham
With CRON or as an init.d you can do many things... http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=DROP%20FAQ#116 ~ Andrew lathama Latham lath...@gmail.com * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux *

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
I was thinking on the same lines, i.e. setup a server which will be regularly updated with these bad IP addresses, and anybody looking to block bad IPs will be able to get this list from here. For example when I get mail from Fail2Ban (which I am getting more and more everyday now), a copy would

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Howes
On 21 Oct 2010, at 16:54, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I'll subscribe, that is for sure. What is the best way to dist the blacklist? iptables include file? Or something more integrated to asterisk... just thinking off the top of my head that a module that vetted inbound connections against

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Cary Fitch
: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Howes Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:41 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting Hi, Given the recent increase in SIP

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Andrew Latham wrote: Always start here... http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ If the AS is stolen, you can block the network and never have to worry about it... ~ Andrew lathama Latham lath...@gmail.com I guess you are assuming that spam networks should be included in

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread David F Newman
On 10/21/10 12:07 PM, Steve Howes steve-li...@geekinter.net wrote: On 21 Oct 2010, at 16:54, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I'll subscribe, that is for sure. What is the best way to dist the blacklist? iptables include file? Or something more integrated to asterisk... just thinking off the top

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Howes
On 21 Oct 2010, at 17:03, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: But the problem is how to make sure that only legitimate users are contributing to this list. Contributors to this list somehow need to verify to an admin that they are not hackers, and this the hard part. I was thinking of having a threshold

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Steve Howes wrote: On 21 Oct 2010, at 16:54, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I'll subscribe, that is for sure. What is the best way to dist the blacklist? iptables include file? Or something more integrated to asterisk... just thinking off the top of my head that a module

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Howes
On 21 Oct 2010, at 17:32, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I agree in principle - some cron job pulling the list by http would certainly be simple. But just to continue my thoughts to the brick wall, I don't see a lookup adding latency to the call other than what should be a very brief addition to

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Latham
Always start here...  http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ If the AS is stolen, you can block the network and never have to worry about it... I guess you are assuming that spam networks should be included in the blacklist by default?  I'm not sure that is a good assumption.  Some of my customer