[asterisk-users] RES: Auto ban IP addresses

Ishfaq Malik
2013-01-03T08:56:57Z

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:42 +0100, Leandro Dardini
wrote:
> I am using fail2ban on all my asterisk server, but beware, fail2ban
> can be a dangerous software. The problem rely on the fact that SIP
> uses UDP, so it is possible to send messages with a forged source IP
> address. This way the bad guy out there can "ban" all your IP
> addresses. I say "it is possible" without having investigated in
deep
> details what is really needed to do.
>
>
The jail.conf in fail2ban allows for a whitelist of IPs that will never
be banned


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