Continuation

Loads of stuff, happens now.

I have setup an Asterisk installation on my server, it is still work in progress and so far, I love it! Why I didn’t checked it out earlier?

So far, I have a few SIP users, and a few PSTN gateways in different countries. Started by reading the free ebook available from Asterisk Website. Setup was really simple, had a few bumps, but day on day it gets more interesting, adding more automation, k3wl. This knowledge will be useful at work, where we are going to setup a proper PBX.

VPN, I have done an OpenVPN installation on my own private network, it works like a charm. Unfortunately at work I had to go with a solution more integrated into MS Windows. I really wanted to have IPSec/L2TP … but the complexity of server setup just killed it. When I was switching from IPSec/L2TP to PPTP it was soooo much easier and cleaner to get PPTP up and running.

I think that IPSec/L2TP will have to wait and eventually it will be rolled out. I really don’t want to use PPTP for full access to my networks. To be honest, when I came across OpenVPN first time, it also was too much for me and I left it and used SSH tunnels instead. So I think I have to mature with IPSec/L2TP and try to make it work later.

After introducing recaptcha to my blog, I have enjoyed some time spam free.

They are back, but this time instead of using comments form, they use something what is called Trackback/Pingback.

TB/PB is basically an interface which allows blogs to talk to each other. For example I have blogged about something and some other blogger has wrote a comment on his blog about my post and linked to my post, TB/PB system will then tell my blog about that blogger and send me his post so I can approve it as a comment on my blog.

Easy… but it goes around recaptcha and lands in my for moderation queue … and this is how spam gets to me now…

Fortunately there are some plugins to deal with that kind of spam … but they are not as efficient as recaptcha  … still will have to try