Month: November 2018

  • Banks and security requirements

    Banks and security requirements

    I’m in the middle of opening a bank account with KBC, and I’m both sadly amused and annoyed with them. Let us start with their security verification questions when creating an account. Rather than rant, I shall quote the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK. If your security question asks for a fixed piece…

  • Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part drei

    Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part drei

    So, DISA, direct inward system access. Plenty of documentation, sort of, on the ‘net about how to get FreeSWITCH to do it via editing XML. However, if you’re using FusionPBX, then you’re actually writing to a Postgres database, which is compiled to XML on the fly (I think) when FreeSWITCH does something that would access…

  • Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part deux

    Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part deux

    At the end of the last installment, I’d been dealing with unavailable servers (turns out they were moving between datacenters, and there didn’t seem to be any announcement of this), and compiles that refused to compile. I decided to cut my losses for a bit, and move on to getting functionality like inbound calls working.…