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

[Paul]

Maybe some people think that a PBX should come with a few games just
like so many cell phones these days :)

Technical Support wrote:

>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
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>
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>-----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?
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>>-----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
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>update
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>>ornot?
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>>However, if you expose the box to the internet, you might want to
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>upgrade
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>>those components that are known to have vulnerabilities. If you don't, 
>>count on the box being compromised sooner or later.
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>>>This is sound advice worth taking.  If you get a system stable in 
>>>production, LEAVE IT ALONE!!
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>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.
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>I think the "once it's working, leave it alone" advice is very sound indeed
>:)
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>HTH
>
>Alex
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