[asterisk-dev] [RFE?] Trusted servers/users

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:13:33PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First off this is just an idea, I do not need it but I think it would make 
> Asterisk more useful in the wild.
> 
> A scenario I was thinking about did not fit into the way I understand Asterisk 
> to work so I thought I would throw it in here to see if anyone liked it enough 
> to give it a second thought, or even put it at the bottom of the pile of things 
> they might like to code.
> If this is already supported then tell me I have not been diligent enough on the 
> research front.
>
> The scenario I was thinking on is where I as an outsourced tech monkey get sent 
> to customer sites to do work, they have firewalls up the yazoo and prevent my 
> devices from logging me into my corporate "home server" to gain access to telephony.
> So I was thinking it would be nice to be able to log into any server that 
> "trusted" my corporate server, it can then ask my companies server if it is OK 
> to let me do so and agree the billing etc.. If required, then send the call logs 
> to my home server for accounting purposes.
> 
> Something like this:
> 1. My device asks DHCP/DNS for a local telephony server
> 2. It then asks local telephony server to log me in.

.. through ssh.

You use the -D switch to establish a sock4/5 proxy into the network.

See also http://rapid-tunneling.wiki.sourceforge.net/

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