Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject: [asterisk-dev] [RFE?] Trusted servers/users
Hi All,
First off this is just an idea, I do not need it but I think it would make
Asterisk more useful in the wild.
A scenario I was thinking about did not fit into the way I understand Asterisk
to work so I thought I would throw it in here to see if anyone liked it enough
to give it a second thought, or even put it at the bottom of the pile of things
they might like to code.
If this is already supported then tell me I have not been diligent enough on the
research front.
The scenario I was thinking on is where I as an outsourced tech monkey get sent
to customer sites to do work, they have firewalls up the yazoo and prevent my
devices from logging me into my corporate "home server" to gain access to telephony.
So I was thinking it would be nice to be able to log into any server that
"trusted" my corporate server, it can then ask my companies server if it is OK
to let me do so and agree the billing etc.. If required, then send the call logs
to my home server for accounting purposes.
Something like this:
1. My device asks DHCP/DNS for a local telephony server
2. It then asks local telephony server to log me in.
3. Local server checks with remote server (which is in it's trusted list) to see
that credentials are OK.
4. Informs the server that it has a route to me (my account/device)
5. I start using the phone as usual and receive and make all calls I would
normally expect to.
6. Logs are duplicated back to my "home server"
7. "home server" routes calls to the current remote host server to deliver to me.
That is it, simple right ;)
Regards and thanks for listening,
Chris.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:47 pm Post subject: [asterisk-dev] [RFE?] Trusted servers/users
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:13:33PM +0100, Chris Lee wrote:
Quote:
Hi All,
First off this is just an idea, I do not need it but I think it would make
Asterisk more useful in the wild.
A scenario I was thinking about did not fit into the way I understand Asterisk
to work so I thought I would throw it in here to see if anyone liked it enough
to give it a second thought, or even put it at the bottom of the pile of things
they might like to code.
If this is already supported then tell me I have not been diligent enough on the
research front.
The scenario I was thinking on is where I as an outsourced tech monkey get sent
to customer sites to do work, they have firewalls up the yazoo and prevent my
devices from logging me into my corporate "home server" to gain access to telephony.
So I was thinking it would be nice to be able to log into any server that
"trusted" my corporate server, it can then ask my companies server if it is OK
to let me do so and agree the billing etc.. If required, then send the call logs
to my home server for accounting purposes.
Something like this:
1. My device asks DHCP/DNS for a local telephony server
2. It then asks local telephony server to log me in.
.. through ssh.
You use the -D switch to establish a sock4/5 proxy into the network.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: [asterisk-dev] [RFE?] Trusted servers/users
On 8 May 2009, at 14:13, Chris Lee wrote:
Quote:
Hi All,
First off this is just an idea, I do not need it but I think it
would make
Asterisk more useful in the wild.
A scenario I was thinking about did not fit into the way I
understand Asterisk
to work so I thought I would throw it in here to see if anyone liked
it enough
to give it a second thought, or even put it at the bottom of the
pile of things
they might like to code.
If this is already supported then tell me I have not been diligent
enough on the
research front.
The scenario I was thinking on is where I as an outsourced tech
monkey get sent
to customer sites to do work, they have firewalls up the yazoo and
prevent my
devices from logging me into my corporate "home server" to gain
access to telephony.
So I was thinking it would be nice to be able to log into any server
that
"trusted" my corporate server, it can then ask my companies server
if it is OK
to let me do so and agree the billing etc.. If required, then send
the call logs
to my home server for accounting purposes.
Something like this:
1. My device asks DHCP/DNS for a local telephony server
2. It then asks local telephony server to log me in.
3. Local server checks with remote server (which is in it's trusted
list) to see
that credentials are OK.
4. Informs the server that it has a route to me (my account/device)
5. I start using the phone as usual and receive and make all calls I
would
normally expect to.
6. Logs are duplicated back to my "home server"
7. "home server" routes calls to the current remote host server to
deliver to me.
That is it, simple right ;)
Regards and thanks for listening,
Chris.
I can see this as one of the uses of Skype for Asterisk.
Skype seems to tunnel pretty effectively over ssl 443 - which is
almost never blocked. So you run SFA on your asterisk.
Redirect incomming calls to your skype account, and run a DISA
for outgoing calls placed from your skype account to your asterisk.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 9:59 am Post subject: [asterisk-dev] [RFE?] Trusted servers/users
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Tim Panton wrote:
Quote:
I can see this as one of the uses of Skype for Asterisk.
Skype seems to tunnel pretty effectively over ssl 443 - which is
almost never blocked. So you run SFA on your asterisk.
Redirect incomming calls to your skype account, and run a DISA
for outgoing calls placed from your skype account to your asterisk.
Hint: UDP port 53 tends not to be blocked either. Have Asterisk listen
on IAX there as well?
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