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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I had to install fail2ban and configure
      it to watch Asterisk.<br>
      <br>
      Ron<br>
      <br>
      On 27/11/2012 2:11 PM, Mitul Limbani wrote:<br>
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      <p>You might want to share the know how over here if its not a
        chan_sip patch.</p>
      <p>Mitul</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2012 12:28 AM, "Ron Wheeler"
        &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a>&gt;
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            <div>On 27/11/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher Harrington wrote:<br>
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            <blockquote 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>
            <br>
            Just add it to the queue of enhancements for the next time
            someone is working on SIP.<br>
            <br>
            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>
                    <br>
                    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>
                    <br>
                    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>
                    <br>
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                    Ron Wheeler<br>
                    President<br>
                    Artifact Software Inc<br>
                    email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            <pre cols="72">-- 
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com" target="_blank">rwheeler@artifact-software.com</a>
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102</pre>
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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
phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102</pre>
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