[asterisk-users] click to call

[Mike]

On 12-07-11 11:50 AM, A J Stiles wrote:
 > Yes indeed. Note the 192.168 address I used in my other example -- 
the Asterisk server here is on the LAN side of the > router, and there 
is no firewall rule anywhere forwarding to its port 80. If for some 
reason you have to run Asterisk on > a box facing the Internet, then 
make sure that any CGI script that can place outside calls is locked 
down in the Apache > configuration so as *only* to be reachable from LAN 
addresses.

Even then, lock it down further if you can. Desktop PCs can become 
infected, and then via botnet controls,  used to grab URLs from inside 
the LAN.

Limiting the number of requests/second/IP may be a good place to start.

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