[asterisk-users] Under heavy attack

[Joel Maslak]

Ah, that makes sense - I probably would restrict to only known endpoints by IP address if I has only DSL bandwidth.  But blocking attackers makes sense if that isn't an option.

Yes, they are after cheap calls.

On Oct 30, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:43:49PM -0600, Joel Maslak wrote:
>> Is there really any benefit to blocking these, if you use good passwords?
> 
> Regardless of any threat from those attacks succeeding, they completely
> saturated the uplink in our ADSL-connected office.
> 
> What are they after, anyway? Merely cheap international calls?
> 
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