[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.2 Released!

[Dustin Goodwin]

As far as I can tell you not an idiot for not picking this up. It was 
a bit buried in the details.  I am not sure why they just didn't
explain this in announcement about 1.2.2. Or better in the Readme.
But I am sure they had good reasons.

ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/README-1.2.2-netsec
"This release of Asterisk contains support for network security devices
manufactured by Ranch Networks, Inc., using their MIDCOM interface
library. You will need the companion libmidcom-0.1.0.tar.gz file to
build the library. Contact Ranch Networks' support department for assistance
 in building and configuring MIDCOM support."

So the Q for the release team is: 
Does this mean Asterisk now has pre-standards based Midcom support? Or just
Ranch midcom support?

About Ranch voip firewall/NAT/QOS appliance thingy:
http://www.ranchnetworks.com/go.rn?view=voip

What is Midcom you ask? 
So Midcom is a IETF protocol Voip PBX speak to tell firewalls type boxes (like Ranch)
what ports to open to allow calls through the firewall. The problem being as Voip get
secure encrypted signaling firewalls will not be able to tell which ports to open to
let media through the firewall. I am scared of the idea that my SIP proxy or
IP PBX would be allowed to tell my firewall which ports to open. But I am not sure there is a better solution.

Good paper that includes short section on Midcom:
NIST: Security Considerations for Voice Over IP Systems
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-58/SP800-58-final.pdf

- Dustin -

Joe Pukepail wrote:

> Perhaps I'm an idiot, but I looked through the readme and changelog 
> but can't figure out what asterisk-netsec is all about?   Anybody 
> figure it out?
>
> On 1/18/06, *Mr. James W. Laferriere* <babydr at baby-dragons.com 
> <mailto:babydr at baby-dragons.com>> wrote:
>
>            Hello Announce & All ,
>
>     On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Asterisk Development Team wrote:
>     > Greetings everyone!
>     > The 1.2.2 versions of Asterisk, Zaptel, and Libpri have now been
>     > released. The source tarballs are available for download on
>     > ftp.digium.com <http://ftp.digium.com>. For details about what
>     has changed, see the ChangeLog
>     > for Asterisk, Zaptel, or Libpri.
>     >
>     > We are also excited to announce the release of a special version of
>     > Asterisk 1.2.2, called Asterisk-NetSec. It includes some very
>     exciting
>     > features not available in any other version of Asterisk, or even
>     any
>     > other related product! Please view the appropriate README and
>     ChangeLog
>     > for more details.
>     >
>     > Asterisk-addons and Asterisk-sounds will remain at version 1.2.1.
>     > Previously, all packages were updated to reflect a matching version
>     > number, even if no changes have been made. From now on, releases
>     will
>     > only be made when changes have actually been made. Even if version
>     > numbers do not match, it is safe to use all of these releases
>     together,
>     > as long as all of them are the latest version available.
>     >
>     > Thank you!
>            The one thing that annoys me most is a announcment with out
>            a url: to what it is announcing .  Can we please correct
>            this ?  Tia ,  JimL
>
>     ps: Not that I can't find it , but ... is just courtisy to others .
>     --
>     +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>     | James   W.   Laferriere | System    Techniques | Give me VMS     |
>     | Network        Engineer | 3542 Broken Yoke Dr. |  Give me Linux  |
>     | babydr at baby-dragons.com <mailto:babydr at baby-dragons.com> |
>     Billings , MT. 59105 |   only  on  AXP |
>     |   http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/cgi-bin/astlance/r.cgi?babydr   |
>     +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>     _______________________________________________
>     --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com
>     <http://Easynews.com> --
>
>     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>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
>
>Asterisk-Users mailing list
>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>   http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>  
>