[asterisk-users] Under heavy attack

[Steve Totaro]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Niles Ingalls <niles at atheos.net> wrote:

>
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote:
>
> > My main asterisk server is under unusual heavy attack, and so far
> > Fail2Ban has blocked about 30 IPs, from various different countries.
> > At this time it is blocking about 1 IP address every few minutes.
> >
> > Just wondering if anybody else is also experiencing unusually
> > increased hack attempts today?
> >
> > Zeeshan A Zakaria
> >
> It's been an extremely busy day for the exploiters.  I moved my phone
> system from one circuit that I have (10Mb) to another that is behind a
> firewall (100Mb) and the fail2ban alerts are all gone.
> I'm not really concerned that someone will determine the passwords, as
> I use the phones serial numbers to determine that.  But still, very
> irritating to see so many attempts at exploiting my phone system.
> fail2ban is nice, but I recommend you put your system behind a
> firewall and only allow necessary connections.  pfsense is doing the
> trick for me. - Niles
>
>
Ever hear of iptables?
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