Well, you could use some software like denyhosts or fail2ban to block an IP after a predefined number of (failed) authentication attempts.
Regards, Ricardo On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:07 AM, gincantalupo <gincantal...@fgasoftware.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I get a lot of these messages on my Asterisk CLI: > > "Failed to authenticate user 1000<sip:1000@MY_OWN_IP_** > ADDRESS>;tag=03f82bb9" > > as if my PBX machine is trying to authenticate to itself. It seems someone > is attacking my asterisk PBX. > > Is there a way to fix this problem? > > Thank you. > > Giorgio Incantalupo > > > -- > ______________________________**______________________________**_________ > -- 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<http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users> > -- *Ricardo Saffi Marques* [Linux SysAdmin] * * *São Paulo/SP:* (11) 2104-0005
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