[asterisk-users] How are you using Asterisk at Home ?

[Steve Prior]

> GNUbie wrote:
> 
>> By the way, my Asterisk PBX server is also my wireless access point, 
>> web server, file server, music server, VPN server, database server, 
>> firewall and router.
>>

Repeat after me - NEVER NEVER NEVER run other servers on your
router/firewall machine!!!  That machine needs to be a maximum security
low vulnerability box and running all sorts of stuff on it conflicts
with that.  Your web server is probably your weakest link in security,
so I wouldn't put your file server, music server, or database server on
that same box because if someone hacks through some webapp you've
installed (it's happened to me with both the TWiki and awstats packages)
then if they've got root on your web server box you don't want them
messing with the other stuff.

I know it sounds like overkill, but I see three boxes here:

1 - firewall/router
2 - web server and other public facing services (sendmail for example)
3 - internal facing services - database, asterisk, file/music server

Some day when box #2 gets rooted (and it will eventually) you'll thank
me...

Steve