Ramblings
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Indexing my books
I’m currently packing books into boxes, in preparation for January, when I expect to be moving out of this apartment and in to a house a little way up the road. It occurred to me that it’d be nice to have an index of my books – at least the titles. I’ve borrowed a barcode…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Report URI is a good thing
I listen to a few infosec related podcasts, and follow a few people on Twitter in that space. In this particular instance, Scott Helme and Troy Hunt – they built a service called Report URI, and it’s fantastic. It implements a reporting service for violations of Content Security Policy declarations, which can turn up some…
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Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX
Asterisk, running on one of my Pis, has been giving me grief recently and dropping calls at random times for apparently random reasons. It reports that it loses contact with the gateway, or that after 11 seconds a critical packet wasn’t received (usually on call setup), or that there’s been no RTP traffic, even when…