New Bag: Ctactical CT21
After using and loving Tom Bihn packs for some time, Fred discovers the Ctactical CT21 and wishes he had found it earlier. What an incredible bag.| www.fredposner.com
Last week, I attended ClueCon 2025 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is well worth the trip. =)| Fred's Blog
After using and loving Tom Bihn packs for some time, Fred discovers the Ctactical CT21 and wishes he had found it earlier. What an incredible bag.| www.fredposner.com
Cluecon, a conference centered around FreeSWITCH, VoIP, and WebRTC, will be held in Chicago from August 4-7th, 2025. This year, I will present regarding migrating users from FreeSWITCH to registering directly on Kamailio.| www.fredposner.com
On parenting: The days are long, but the years are short. On sacrificing: Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do. — Irma Kurtz You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.| Fred Posner (blog)
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali ibn Abi Talib| Fred Posner (blog)
Kamailio World 2025 took place in Berlin, DE from May 12-13th, 20025. A great event with amazing presentations and community. Can't wait for Kamailio World 2026.| www.fredposner.com
Fred took the Tom Bihn Brain Bag to Germany for Kamailio World and has thoughts.| www.fredposner.com
Just a bit ago, I was talking about my new favorite bag, the Tom Bihn Synik 30. Well, my addiction to backpacks is legit and TL;DR I’m the brand new owner of a Tom Bihn Brain Bag.| Fred Posner (blog)
No. The Signal app is not the vulnerability. The headlines are misleading.| www.fredposner.com
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you. — Unknown| Fred Posner (blog)
Kamailio World 2025 will take place in Berlin, DE from May 12-13, 2025. See you in Berlin!| www.fredposner.com
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are solely my personal views and opinions. These do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of any company or project that I am (or have been) associated with.| Fred Posner
Avinash Chopde, back in 2005 (or so), wrote an incredible python script: blockhosts.py. On systems that we deployed that needed public access to SSH, blockhosts was simply a requirement.| Fred Posner
TL;DR: This is what I did to recover a drive (raid array mirrored) from QNAP hardware failure: apt install mdadm lvm2 lvscan vgscan vgchange -ay vg288 lvs mkdir /mnt/recover mount /dev/vg288/lv1 /mnt/recover -o ro,user cp -R /mnt/recover/share_folder /backup (where vg288 is the volume listed in vgscan that your raid is on)| Fred Posner
Just over two years ago, I left twitter and joined Mastodon and Bluesky. Recently Bluesky has seen a ton of traffic/growth, and has become more engaging… this said, both networks have benefits.| Fred Posner
I love backpacks. Always have, hopefully always will. I’ve tried a lot of backpacks over the years and have, as many others, changed my preferences over time.| Fred Posner
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are solely my personal views and opinions. These do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of any company or project that I am (or have been) associated with.| Fred Posner
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see Mark Twain| Fred Posner
For some reason, I started believing that good quality headphones were worth a hefty price. The problem? Good quality headphones do not exist. Take for example Bose. Now, perhaps it’s my age… or maybe liking The Sharper Image catalogs as a kid… but I had always considered Bose to be a “premium” brand. After all, it does come with a premium price.| Fred Posner
May not be good as I once was But I'm as good once as I ever was Toby Keith| Fred Posner
Storm’s over. Unlike Helene, which was one of the worst storms I’ve seen in Gainesville, Milton was truly a non-event for us (locally).| Fred Posner
Latest update reduced the wind forcast for our area as the storm has stayed south. GAINESVILLE FL 34 1 11(12) 11(23) X(23) X(23) X(23) X(23)| Fred Posner
It's like deja vu all over again Yogi BeraAnother day, another hurricane. I am getting really tired of these.| Fred Posner
Storm’s over. That was one of (if not) the worst storms I’ve seen in Gainesville since the 1993 Storm of the Century. That storm was nuts… way worse than what I’ve seen around town today (back then there were roofs ripped off, homes destroyed, etc).| Fred Posner
This isn’t a discussion on “what is STIR/SHAKEN”… for that I refer you to Wikipedia, Transnexus, the FCC, and google. Today, I wish to waste your time with my thoughts regarding STIR/SHAKEN being a ridiculous waste of time and effort.| Fred Posner
Ridin' the Storm Out REO SpeedwagonAnother day, another hurricane. I am getting really tired of these.| Fred Posner
I still remember when I first saw OBIHAI… at a ClueCon well over 10 years ago. I’ve seen many phones and it generally takes something extraordinary to impress me.| Fred Posner
Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest. J.B. PritzkerA great quote taken as part of commencement speech from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker; complete with Office an reference for those so inclined.| Fred Posner
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama| Fred Posner
Thank you to the FreeSWITCH/SignalWire team for posting my ClueCon 2024 presentation, Kamailio and FreeSWITCH at Scale, to YouTube. I’ve also posted the slides from the presentation to pgpx.io:| Fred Posner
I figured it was time to check in on APIBAN before Labor Day… Over the summer APIBAN SIP honeypots received traffic from (on average) 130-150 unique IP addresses a day. APIBAN HTTP honeypots saw traffic from (on average) 200-230 unique IP addresses a day.| Fred Posner
ClueCon has ended (or is about too… I had to leave a few hours before it ended). Good time… as always it was great to meet with people from the community, especially Kamailians like Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Ramona Modroiu, Giacomo Vaca, and more.| Fred Posner
I love git. Ever work with git and for whatever reason need to run git stash to override your local “changes.” Most of the time, I will never need these files again. Well, there’s an easy way to handle that… git stash drop.| Fred Posner
I tell you what… phishing attempts are getting better than ever. Take this one received this morning: This one definitely gave me a double take for sure, and there were definitely some things it did very well, such as:| Fred Posner
This year, CommCon went on tour. The tour visited London and San Francisco; and since I’ve never been able to make a CommCon in person, I absolutely did everything I could to attend the US stop. Luckily, my presentation on APIBAN was accepted.| Fred Posner
Join me in Chicago for ClueCon2024! I enjoy attending ClueCon, even with it being in Chicago (I’d much rather travel to Berlin for Kamailio World). All kidding aside, ClueCon consistently is an enjoyable event.| Fred Posner
In June 2022, a new TLS module was announced: tls_wolfssl. The module was created as an alternative to the standard tls module; which uses libssl. There had been some “frustration” with openssl 3.x.x and with the new wolfssl project, and alternative made sense.| Fred Posner
tl;dr: New venue, amazing people, well run, good food, great content. Looking forward to 2025. Got back recently from my trip to Berlin and absolutely loved this year’s Kamailio World. The 2 day event covered a variety of Kamailio/VoIP related talks, as well as some talks dealing with 5g, 6g, and even communicating in Space.| Fred Posner
We have a new go(lang) based APIBAN client that will send IP addresses directly to your chosen fail2ban jail. The new client comes to us from concerns of FreePBX users of fail2ban fighting iptables additions. There’s other benefits for freepbx users, including seeing IP addresses in the GUI, etc.| Fred Posner
It’s been a long time since I bought my first Mac and got an iPhone not much later. I like Apple for the most part. Spent a few years with just a linux laptop/desktop, but got a M2 Macbook Air last year and, well… I say all that to say this:| Fred Posner
Next stop, Berlin! In just 2 weeks, Kamailio World 2024 will be held in-person and in Berlin. This year, there’s location and I’m excited to both attend and speak. If you haven’t gotten tickets, there’s still time to register.| Fred Posner
Well, so much for that. After trying poison for a while, I just didn’t like it. I did love the mermaid diagrams though… Oh well. I went back to an oldie but a goodie… papermod. Clean, simple, dark mode. The only thing it was missing was those damn mermaid diagrams.| Fred Posner
Another day, another template… this time I’m trying out poison. One of the neat things with this template is the incorporation of Mermaid diagrams sequenceDiagram participant Alice participant Kamailio participant Bob Alice->>Kamailio: INVITE Kamailio->>Alice: 100 Trying Kamailio->>Bob: INVITE Bob->>Kamailio: 180 Ringing Kamailio->>Alice: 180 Ringing Bob->>Kamailio: 200 OK Kamailio->>Alice: 200 OK Alice->>Kamailio: ACK Kamailio->>Bob: ACK Alice->>Kamailio: BYE Kamailio->>Bob: BYE Bob->>Ka...| Fred Posner
One does not speak unless one knows The Mandalorian| Fred Posner
I won’t be attending Astricon this year. Once again, Astricon has co-located with ITEXPO in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, similar to the old Asterisk World events (that Sangoma ended soon after acquiring Digium).| Fred Posner
Kamailio World remains one of my favorite events of the year. I am very excited that Kamailio World will again be held in-person and in Berlin.| Fred Posner
You’ve probably heard me say (once or twice)… APIBAN helps prevent unwanted SIP traffic by identifying addresses of known bad actors before they attack your system. Bad actors are collected through globally deployed honeypots and curated by LOD/APIBAN.| Fred Posner
Clearly, my goal of writing more in 2023 failed significantly. As many Americans travel to celebrate Thanksgiving, our family once again will celebrate locally here in Gainesville.| Fred Posner
In just a few weeks, I’ll be headed to ClueCon2023 in Chicago. I generally enjoy going to ClueCon and am happy to say I have lost track of the number I’ve attended.| Fred Posner
I love Kamailio World and cannot properly describe how excited I am to return to Berlin for an in personKamailio World. I am honored to be presenting in this year’s schedule. My talk, Using APIBan In Productions, will be at 1100 on June 06, 2023.| Fred Posner
Kamailio v5.7.0 is out – a new major release, bringing new features and improvements added during almost twelve months of combined development and testing. It’s always exciting when a new, major Kamailio release launches and I’m sure this release will be talked about during Kamailio World (coming up in just 2 weeks!).| Fred Posner
We recently made some dramatic enhancements to the APIBAN infrastructure. As I joked on Mastodon, I must be getting older as these improvements were made well before an emergency.| Fred Posner
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are solely my personal views and opinions. These do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of any company or project that I am (or have been) associated with.| Fred Posner
Another year, another quiet Thanksgiving in Gainesville. Later on this week, we’ll be celebrating my daughter’s 4th birthday. Still coming to terms with how quickly the time passes.| Fred Posner
I’ve learned a few things from Michael White throughout the time we’ve been friends. The most important being to make a mantra of Happy Wife. Happy Life.| Fred Posner
I love git. Love it. I’ll save my love for Gitea for another day (TL;DR: Gitea is awesome). Anyway, a lot of git repositories allow you to use ssh keys as authentication. This is a great thing, but of course, sometimes can be difficult to manage if lets say one repo for work uses one key and one that you use for a side project uses a different ssh key.| Fred Posner
The wonders of troubleshooting SIP never cease. Ever try to open a pcap with sngrep only to get the following error? Couldn't open pcap file XYZ.pcap: unknown file format And then, even though you hate looking at SIP on wireshark, you are left wondering… Why does this file open in Wireshark, but not in sngrep?| Fred Posner
Well, ITEXPO 2022 has come and gone. I think there were perhaps 2-3 other people at the conference who wore a mask. This said, I did return home without covid…| Fred Posner
Sangoma recently announced that Astricon 2023 will be co-located with ITEXPO in Fort Lauderdale. Here’s their exact announcement: With tremendous excitement, we officially announce the return of an in-person AstriCon. We will ease into the in-person event by co-locating AstriCon at ITEXPO on February 13-17, 2023, in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida.| Fred Posner
When the bakery closed during Covid, one reason was Bank of America’s delays in handling of our emergency loan (PPP) request. That’s a different story for another time, but the bottom line is that I moved from Bank of America to a credit union (for both business and personal banking).| Fred Posner
Ever get an error like this when running an apt update? The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B4D2D216F1FD7806 or| Fred Posner
Generally, when I deploy Kamailio, I use git. Many reasons for this (including being able to quickly apply a patch or fix), but that’s a discussion for another time.| Fred Posner
Last Thanksgiving, thanks to Covid, Thanksgiving was quieter than normal. This year, travel is expected to be close to pre-pandemic levels (air travel alone is expected to be 91% of what it was pre-pandemic). This said, we’re staying in Gainesville for the holiday and having a quiet celebration.| Fred Posner
The major announcement at ClueCon 2021 was the release of FreeSWITCH 1.10.7. Highlights from this release: fixes for security advisories (upgrade today) support for Debian 11 bug fixes etc There’s a great presentation from Sandro Gauci regarding the story behind some of the vulnerabilities he (and his team) discovered/submitted. Included in his story, is one of my favorite moments from Kamailio World.| Fred Posner
APIBAN helps prevent unwanted SIP traffic by identifying addresses of known bad actors before they attack your system. Bad actors are collected through globally deployed honeypots and curated by LOD/APIBAN.| Fred Posner
Recently, I posted about using Kamailio’s PIKE module to help block excessive SIP traffic. This is a great tool for helping your system handle high traffic SIP, such as floods.| Fred Posner
After spending many years on Wordpress, I’ve decided to make a change in the software running this site. First of all, I have absolutely nothing against wordpress. I’ve used wordpress for well over 15 years at this point. There’s a simple reason why so much of the web is powered by wordpress – it’s clean, easy to run/maintain, and there’s great templates available. You can literally get started in 5 minutes.| Fred Posner
The Pike module in Kamailio provides detection and alerting of “excessive” SIP traffic to your system. Within the module you can configure the rate limit, time period, and amount of time that the IP (ipv4 or ipv6) should be blocked.| Fred Posner
Normally, I write these posts the night before Thanksgiving… after all, Thanksgiving remains my absolute favorite holiday. A time to gather with family (remember…. friends are the family you choose), express gratitude, and eat great food.| Fred Posner
Twenty years ago, I started The Palner Group, Inc. with the goal of providing technology consulting as a service. 2000 feels like a century ago (I’ve not thought about the millennium bug for some time now) and I’m using this anniversary to reflect on having this company for two decades.| Fred Posner
This has been a really different year. After attending ITEXPO back in February, I was looking forward to a great visit to Berlin for Kamailio World.| Fred Posner
Been a rough few months for the wife’s business and sadly, we had to announce the closure of Bearkery® earlier this week. For 10 years, I’ve watched Yeni pour her heart and sole into the bakery and although we saw it coming and prepared, the end was nonetheless heartbreaking.| Fred Posner
Well, 2020 is certainly a strange year… Some of us have been working from home for a very long time while others are now just understanding the benefits. Of course, when a drastic change in work environment becomes a forced change, the implementation can be quite daunting.| Fred Posner
Had to install kamailio and rtpengine on centos8 recently… hopefully this saves you some time: https://github.com/fredposner/scripts/blob/master/kamailio/centos8_install.md| Fred Posner
11 years and 1 branch (shown above)| Fred Posner
Hoping that everyone is staying safe and seeing the impact to many of my friends has been nothing short of devastating. Our favorite local restaurants have resorted to take-out and if they’re lucky are getting 25% of the business they’d normally receive. (Quick shout out to Blue Water Bay here in North Florida and if you’re anywhere near Maggie Valley, NC, check out Frankie’s) The bakery has seen all events for the rest of the year cancelled… which includes weddings, graduations, ca...| Fred Posner
Had a great time visiting with members of the open source VoIP community in Fort Lauderdale for open source world / itexpo 2020. I was excited to discuss Kamailio and other aspects of communication as well as get some important hardware discussions in person… it’s an interesting time as hardware and software vendors seem to be merging left and right.| Fred Posner
In 1990, while a freshman at UF (Go Gators!), I applied for and received my first credit card. The card, from Citibank, was a “college special” with a whopping credit limit of $600.00 and fees/penalties as high as the Federal Government would allow. This said, there was no yearly fee and I knew at the ripe age of 18 that if I paid my balance on time, my cost was 0.00. Granted, I didn’t have much money (like generally a bank account of 200.00 or so) and got the card in case I needed food...| Fred Posner
From February 11th through 15th, 2020, Open Source World (or open source summit?) will be colocated at ITEXPO 2020 in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This year, I will be speaking the gospel of Kamailio with a presentation entitled, “Using Kamailio to Secure Your Communications” (currently scheduled for February 13th at 3pm).| Fred Posner
I’m not a programmer. Never tried to pass myself off as one — which made for a really, really awkward interview once… but that’s another story. Anyway, I’ve been creating “APIs” in Perl for a while using Perl CGI on NGINX. It’s not a REST API whatsoever, but I enjoy scripting in Perl and (1) got the job done, (2) was fast, and (3) no learning curve.| Fred Posner
TL;DRA few weeks ago, I had some strong concerns over Sangoma’s stewardship of Asterisk and FreePBX. Since that post, Astricon showed that Sangoma definitely appreciates the open source VoIP community and I’m optimistic for the future. I, along with 300+ others, attended Astricon 2019 during the last week of October in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s Astricon differed dramatically from others — there was no expo hall, fewer presentations, fewer tracks.| Fred Posner
A special spooky episode of ClueCon Weekly with guests Fred Posner and Dan Jenkins! When Open Source is under attack gasp.| Fred Posner
Did you catch Fred Posner on FLOSS Weekly discussing Kamailio? Fred discusses Kamailio on FLOSS WeeklyFLOSS all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Hosted by Randal Schwartz and his rotating panel of co-hosts every Wednesday as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.| Fred Posner
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone| Fred Posner
So, earlier today (2019-09-24), Sangoma tweeted the following: Is it possible to outgrow an #opensource#PBX? As your business grows, you might need to move to a more business-oriented solution with enhanced features & support. New blog at https://t.co/SvhwvcKARO#phonesystem — Sangoma (@Sangoma) September 24, 2019 If you don’t know, just over a year ago, Sangoma acquired Digium, the creators of Asterisk (which Sangoma called “the most widely used open source communication software in the...| Fred Posner
The high cost of poor automation? Recently, an automated call from my utility department served as a great example of automation gone wrong.| Fred Posner
She runs a tight kitchen for sure.| Fred Posner
At the end of January, it is my honor to attend Asterisk World at ITExpo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This year, I will be presenting about integrating Kamailio with Asterisk.| Fred Posner
So, AnneMarie entered our lives about 6 weeks ago, and despite all of the amazing advice from all my family and friends, I underestimated the amount of disruption a newborn brings.| Fred Posner
2 days of try and fail can save you 5 minutes of reading the manual @miconda (via the Kamailio SR-Users List)| Fred Posner
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Ancient Greek Proverb| Fred Posner
The question: When should you use Kamailio? I love Astricon — absolutely look forward to attending the conference each and every year. For the last several years, I’ve been honored to speak at the conference and my presentation from this year has just been posted to YouTube.| Fred Posner
Been a fun Summer and early Fall, and although our trip to Europe should have included alcohol, we made the best of it. Yes, we’re both a little bigger than when we made the announcement, but as the due date rapidly nears… we remain excited for what shall come.| Fred Posner
You can't fight feelings with logic. Corey| Fred Posner
This October, smart people throughout the globe will gather in Orlando, Florida —not for Disney World, Universal, or Sea World… but rather something much more exciting… open source telecom.| Fred Posner
You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are. Fred Rogers aka Mr. Rogers| Fred Posner
You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are. Fred RogersBeen in a Mr. Rogers mood lately… reading some of his quotes, watching old videos, and watching Won’t You Be My Neighbor? with Yeni…| Fred Posner
It’s summer-time, very hot, very humid, and this means… it’s time for ClueCon! I’m losing track, but this year will be my fourth or fifth time attending this conference in “beautiful” Chicago. ClueCon is a conference for developers by developers: an annual technology conference held every summer hosted by the team behind the FreeSWITCH open-source project.| Fred Posner
The FCC recently proposed a 4.5MM fine against Telnyx for robocalls; stemming from not Knowing Your Customer. The response from CEO David Casem was concerning...| www.fredposner.com
