<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div>Geoip works well to block all countries except your own</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%">Regards</div><div style="font-size:75%">Andrew Colin-mobile</div><div style="font-size:75%">Vsave(PTY)Ltd</div><div style="font-size:75%"><br></div><div style="font-size:75%"></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size:75%"></div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Eric Wieling <EWieling@nyigc.com> <br>Date:19/01/2014 8:40 PM (GMT+02:00) <br>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> <br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts <br><br><br>It is far worse when you have multiple phones behind the same public address (i.e. NAT). If any one of the phones has a bad password and the IP gets blocked by fail2ban, then all phones at that site would be blocked. <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall<br>Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:40 AM<br>To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts<br><br>On 19/1/14 2:57 pm, Ron Wheeler wrote:<br>> fail2ban is so easy to set up, there is no reason not to set it up.<br><br>One of the dangers with fail2ban - at least in its default configuration<br>- is that a legitimate SIP phone with an incorrect password can quite easily send dozens of registration attempts in a couple of minutes, thus blocking that IP.<br><br><br>-- <br>_____________________________________________________________________<br>-- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --<br>New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:<br> http://www.asterisk.org/hello<br><br>asterisk-users mailing list<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users<br></body>