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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/11/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher
      Harrington wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJLBXEm7a04+mUWcix6SCXXQNiemH38Hji11GC1cegRurYe_uw@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">It's an open source project. Pay a programmer or make
      the modification yourself and submit a patch.</blockquote>
    You don't really want me coding!<br>
    I have solved the problem for me.<br>
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    Just add it to the queue of enhancements for the next time someone
    is working on SIP.<br>
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    Ron<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Ron
          Wheeler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com"
              target="_blank">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I looking
            through my logs, I found that people where probing my SIP
            accounts looking for passwords.<br>
            Asterisk was helping them out by processing hundreds of
            requests per minute.<br>
            I did a bit of Googling and this seems to be a frequent
            knock against Asterisk's security.<br>
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            It would seem pretty simple to add a configuration setting
            to sip.conf to delay the response to a bad account or
            password.<br>
            <br>
            There is a half measure to confuse the probe by sending the
            same error return for either error.<br>
            It appears that many people have complained that this should
            be the default setting only changed if your are debugging a
            problem.<br>
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            There is no reason for a working system to ever have bad
            passwords so this is clearly an attack in almost every case.<br>
            <br>
            A simple delay would solve the problem for most people who
            use reasonable passwords.<br>
            <br>
            I had to install fail2ban which is a PITA but thanks to
            someone's clear recipe, I was able to get it working.<br>
            <br>
            I hope that this can be worked into a release soon.<br>
            <br>
            Ron<br>
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            -- <br>
            Ron Wheeler<br>
            President<br>
            Artifact Software Inc<br>
            email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com"
              target="_blank">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a><br>
            skype: ronaldmwheeler<br>
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        -Chris Harrington<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a>
skype: ronaldmwheeler
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