[Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum update ornot?

[Technical Support]

I think that some people try to make their asterisk box a do-everything
super server.  Can you image a traditional PBX with direct access via the
internet, serving web pages via apache, running sendmail, etc.

Our approach has been keep it simple.  We lock each Asterisk PBX down has
hard as possible.  This includes no direct internet connection (it should
sit behind a real firewall), minimal services running, etc.  With this
philosophy, one can treat the PBX as an appliance: don't touch it if it's
working.

If you must run host web pages, run mail servers, offer SQLnet connections,
make visible to the internet, etc. then other users are correct - you better
continually patch/update ASAP.

MD



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Barnes
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:04 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum update
ornot?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- 
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rich Adamson
> Sent: 08 February 2006 08:41
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum
update
> ornot?
> 
> However, if you expose the box to the internet, you might want to
upgrade
> those components that are known to have vulnerabilities. If you don't, 
> count on the box being compromised sooner or later.
> 
> ------------------------
> > This is sound advice worth taking.  If you get a system stable in 
> > production, LEAVE IT ALONE!!
> >


We have just switched from SUSE to Fedora4 for our new installs and are very
happy with it.  Personally I much prefer it and bonus is it's free.

Something that might be of interest is before I deployed the box live I did
a full yum update I guess it must have updated the kernel or something as
after I rebooted the box zap stopped working with some weird errors.

Quick recompile of zaptel had everything working a charm but its something
worth keeping in mind.

I think the "once it's working, leave it alone" advice is very sound indeed
:)


HTH

Alex


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