Hello everyone,
In response to a recent thread discussing some of the difficulties in
"finding" a recently installed AstLinux machine on a network, I started
researching the best way to advertise the services that are typically
offered with an AstLinux system.
This lead me, naturally, to rendezvous/bonjour. This is a fantastic
protocol that allows you to advertise all types of protocols and various
service parameters.
As of now in astlinux-trunk, AstLinux will advertise the following
services:
- SIP
- IAX
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- SSH
- NTP
with a default advertise name of "AstLinux PBX". As usual, you can
disable this behavior (or change the advertised name), with a simple
change to rc.conf (the variable name is ADNAME).
AstLinux 0.5 (when released) will advertise all of these services "out
of the box" to help users get started. I do recommend that once you
have located the machine and configured it you disable the advertise
service as it does consume resources and open your system to possible
security threats.
This is really pretty cool... I just flashed a Soekris, booted it up,
and my laptop (running Ubuntu) notified me of the new services available
on my network. I clicked on AstLinux PBX SIP, and the Ekiga softphone
that was installed by default made a SIP call to the system and within
seconds, I was hearing the default Asterisk demo.
A new drop down box was available on my GNOME toolbar. One of the
options was to login via SSH into the AstLinux PBX. I clicked on this,
and I was prompted for a password. I entered the default password and I
was sitting at the command prompt for the AstLinux system. Same thing
goes for the web interface using HTTPS. Awesome!
As always, any comments, testing, (even flames) are appreciated. Let
me know what you think!
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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