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