| Summary: | ASTERISK-04946: [request] [post 1.2] too many manager connections make asterisk unusable | ||
| Reporter: | Jon Hood (squinky86) | Labels: | |
| Date Opened: | 2005-08-31 13:47:53 | Date Closed: | 2005-09-06 18:02:42 |
| Priority: | Major | Regression? | No |
| Status: | Closed/Complete | Components: | Core/ManagerInterface |
| Versions: | Frequency of Occurrence | ||
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| Description: | It's too easy to flood the asterisk manager with too many connections. A connection limit (max_connections) should be available in manager.conf. To take down any public asterisk server with an open manager interface, simply run: $ while [ 1 ]; do telnet <asteriskboxip> 5038 > /dev/null & echo -n "." ; done Within a few seconds, asterisk will become unusable. The only workarounds are to disable the asterisk manager or make sure it is not accessible to an untrusted network. | ||
| Comments: | By: Michael Jerris (mikej) 2005-08-31 13:50:42 I suggest you place a bounty to get this done. In practice the suggested way to use manager is through some sort of proxy if you will have a lot of connections. By: Olle Johansson (oej) 2005-08-31 13:51:52 A better solution would be using the manager proxy for distributing information. With that, we could have one secure (tunneled) connection that proxies out to many on another system. By: Michael Jerris (mikej) 2005-09-06 18:02:40 Closing request due to no response. I recommend that you move this request to the bounty form on the wiki, or contract the work out if you are unable to resolve it yourself. Using a manager proxy is still the recomended way to resolve this issue. | ||