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From: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help tweaking asterisk rules
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:39:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jiurm5$m0i$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450EB7580E6AE7469F8826BFBF09BAB6761D15@earwax.uent.com>

On 21/01/2011 02:05, Max DiOrio wrote:
> I was also hoping someone can provide some guidance on leaving the RTP
> ports UDP 10000:20000 open to all IP's on the WAN.  What type of
> security issue will this raise?  Should I install Fail2Ban in this
> setup?  The only issue I have with Fail2Ban was that it blocked my
> access from the LAN within 15 seconds of it coming online.

They needn't be open at all. Instead, load the the ip_conntrack_sip 
module and ensure that your iptables policy is stateful.

http://www.iptel.org/sipalg/

Using fail2ban carelessly might pave the way for remotely exploitable 
DoS attacks. Though it has its uses, I wouldn't generally recommend it.

http://www.ossec.net/main/attacking-log-analysis-tools

Cheers,

--Kerin


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-04  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-21  2:05 Help tweaking asterisk rules Max DiOrio
2012-03-04  4:39 ` Kerin Millar [this message]
2012-03-04  7:10   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-03-04  7:25     ` Kerin Millar

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