[Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum update ornot?

[Joseph Tanner]

On 2/8/06, Paul <ast2005 at 9ux.com> wrote:
> Maybe some people think that a PBX should come with a few games just
> like so many cell phones these days :)

Unfortunately, mine has to sit on the front line, it can't hide behind
a firewall.  I only have one IP, and it's either assign it to asterisk
(and thus force it to serve as a nat server, occassional ftp server,
etc.) or have to deal with having asterisk behind nat.  Configuring
sip without nat is soooooo easy.  Yes, I took the easy way out!

Of course, in my situation I make sure to keep it fairly up to date.

Joseph Tanner

> Technical Support wrote:
>
> >I think that some people try to make their asterisk box a do-everything
> >super server.  Can you image a traditional PBX with direct access via the
> >internet, serving web pages via apache, running sendmail, etc.
> >
> >Our approach has been keep it simple.  We lock each Asterisk PBX down has
> >hard as possible.  This includes no direct internet connection (it should
> >sit behind a real firewall), minimal services running, etc.  With this
> >philosophy, one can treat the PBX as an appliance: don't touch it if it's
> >working.
> >
> >If you must run host web pages, run mail servers, offer SQLnet connections,
> >make visible to the internet, etc. then other users are correct - you better
> >continually patch/update ASAP.
> >
> >MD
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Barnes
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:04 AM
> >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum update
> >ornot?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> >>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rich Adamson
> >>Sent: 08 February 2006 08:41
> >>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum
> >>
> >>
> >update
> >
> >
> >>ornot?
> >>
> >>However, if you expose the box to the internet, you might want to
> >>
> >>
> >upgrade
> >
> >
> >>those components that are known to have vulnerabilities. If you don't,
> >>count on the box being compromised sooner or later.
> >>
> >>------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>>This is sound advice worth taking.  If you get a system stable in
> >>>production, LEAVE IT ALONE!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >We have just switched from SUSE to Fedora4 for our new installs and are very
> >happy with it.  Personally I much prefer it and bonus is it's free.
> >
> >Something that might be of interest is before I deployed the box live I did
> >a full yum update I guess it must have updated the kernel or something as
> >after I rebooted the box zap stopped working with some weird errors.
> >
> >Quick recompile of zaptel had everything working a charm but its something
> >worth keeping in mind.
> >
> >I think the "once it's working, leave it alone" advice is very sound indeed
> >:)
> >
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Alex
> >
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