[Freeswitch-users] Brute-force attack

[ocset]

Thanks Bob

The reason for opening the port would be to allow a user running a "Viop 
phone" app on their smartphone to register with Freeswitch, so that 
calls can be transferred to them when they are away from the office.

Regards
O

On 14/06/12 10:41, Bob Coleman wrote:
> If you are only connecting to specified SIP providers, then you 
> could specify those endpoints at the firewall level, which would help.
>
> Regards
>
> Bob
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:27:50 +0800
> > From: ocset at the800group.com
> > To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> > Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Brute-force attack
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have deployed Freeswiitch on windows 7 and since there is no fail2ban
> > on windows, I was wondering what the real risk is with opening it up to
> > the internet. If I was to ensure that all users and passwords were
> > extremely difficult to guess (passwords like "2$53E_d7?^2!3s$"), what
> > are the risks that I am exposing myself to? Is there a type of DoS for
> > voip where hackers can just flood my system with requests simply to be
> > malicious?
> >
> > There are VB windows scripts available that emulate what fail2ban does
> > on Linux but I was just wondering whether I really need to implement
> > this level of security if I can control the password complexity in
> > Freeswitch.
> >
> > Thanks
> > O
>
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