Re: Re: Protecting asterisk from hackers
Aldevinas Katkus
7-29-20
Thanks. Fail2ban does not always help (maybe it is already fixed, don't know) https://forums.asterisk.org/viewtopic.php?p=159984:

It is also worth mentioning, if people used type=peer instead of type=friend, none of these attacks would have a chance of succeeding as type=peer forces registration which fail2ban already knows how to protect.
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