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Ever wondered why in FreeSWITCH, registration and authentication to remote SIP endpoints are called gateways, not trunks? Well, it’s more of the fact that SIP never really defined what trunking is. For the people who don’t know what trunking is, it’s essentially a link to another remote Central Office for telephone switches in a Central Office or from a PABX to the Central Office via a T1 or TDM link.
Continue reading “The first FreeSWITCH patch that calls SIP “Gateways” as Trunks”

I’m a frequent lurker in bakabt’s channel over at rizon and they asked us for our help, so they have it!

How to save an Internet community
Hello BakaBT community and people of the Internet,

We need your help! Please spread this message everywhere on the Internet.
If you have a blog, twitter or myspace or know someone with a blog, twitter or myspace copy this message verbatim!

I am writing this message right now as my community website is unreachable due to a continued DoS attack.
A DoS attack is a Denial-of-Service attack that drowns all normal traffic going to the server by sending a tremendous amount of (fake) traffic.
It is the bane of any website owner as there is very little you can do against it, other than hope the attack will stop or invest in special expensive DoS protection hardware.

The demand of the attacker is that we remove information we posted about his person a while ago on our blog after he did an earlier (simpler) attack.
We managed to dig up all sorts of interesting information thanks to another site (www.0xyg3n.com) which had also been attacked by the same ‘hacker’.

Our site has been down for 24 hours, after which the ‘hacker’ promised to stop the attack and give us 1 week to remove the message.
The attack never stopped, normal traffic was able to siphon through so the server seemed reachable. But this means he obviously can not, or will not, negotiate with us.

We have thought a while about what to do, and we have reached some conclusions:
Apparently there is something valuable in the message that we posted as the ‘hacker’ is spending a fair dime attacking our server (DoS attacks ‘sell’ for about $60 for 24 hours).
There is nothing that we can do to make him stop this attack. Yes, we could give in to his demand, but why would he stop the attack then? He sure isn’t stopping now. And then what is next? last time he asked for my resignation.

So, we have decided to fight fire with fire. Fight a distributed attack with distribution, and for this we need your help!
If you have a blog, twitter or myspace, or know someone with a blog, twitter or myspace, copy this message verbatim!
If this message is copied many times to many different sites all across the Internet no one will be able to erase it from the Internet.
What happens to our website and 6 year old community? I don’t know. It would be a shame to loose it over something so trivial.

Below is a summary of the information we found about him (please copy this as well as that is the whole idea of this message!):

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I also have his home IP from the comments 77.162.16.18 […] Anyway since then I have noticed I’ve been getting hits for people doing a search for his site 0xyG3N.info (which I’ll point out has been offline for some time) I would also just like to say that his site has nothing to do with me everything I do online is only via 0xyg3n.com […] He also uses the username roffamaffia which I suggested he should go back to using. He also uses kyuubinyuu@hotmail.com as an alternate email to the msn one.

I also know his name which is mesut baysan he’s 15 and lives in Dongen Noord-Brabant Netherland oppps. I also have a home address but I’m not going to post that up as I’m not sure if its totally correct or not. I also have some other details that I’ll save for a later post if needed.
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Our blog: http://blog.bakabt.com/2009/08/23/kdos/ (use Google cache if the domain is unreachable)
Our backup blog: http://baka.applehomicide.com/2009/08/23/kdos/
0xyg3n’s blog (not the hacker): http://www.0xyg3n.com/?p=555 about his encounter

E-mail / Live:
– us3n3xt@live.nl (old)
– amaterasu_@live.jp (latest known)

Known nicknames:
– 0xyG3N (note the capital G and N)
– Roffamaffia
– Sasuke-

Help us save our community and give power back to the webmasters!

14 Gold Medals…

Working my butt off on the month of February at the Westin Bayshore Hotel as a lowly Parking Attendant. In VANOC terms, that hotel was designated as OFH, OF1 in the bottomless ocean of the alphabet soup that never gets depleted. (Hey, they even have a acronym for Richmond Olympic Oval, guess what it is?)

Hearing Canada keep the gold medal in Canadian soil while I was working near that venue…

All of what I expected during my 28-day stay at OF1/STA venues… Truly an once in a lifetime experience… Something that most really can’t get a chance to do.

Working in the Olympics did sure change the way I see Vancouver and Canada. No longer do I feel that the Olympics was a waste of taxpayers money, nor do I feel that this event was an unnecessary waste of money. It was an event that we were wishing for and got the chance to host it.

After knowing that Canada won 14 gold medals in our own soil, now I don’t feel that ashamed to be a Canadian when I visit my left-minded relatives living in China. Being Canadian means something and being a resident in the city where the Olympics was held in means a lot more to me after I’ve seen how we Canadians are resilient.

Just ask yourself… Being a citizen of that nation where the Olympics was held in and your nation achieved the level of success they anticipated, would you feel that way too?

My big ‘disapproval of action’ (or a ‘fuck you’, if you want to put it in different words) are given to people who tried to storm OF1 and destroyed Olympic Sponsor’s property. You didn’t spread your ‘political’ message, you just sent out the wrong message. The Canadian Olympic spirit still lives inside our hearts and is now stronger than ever. That also applies to whoever yelled ‘Fuck the Olympics’ at me when I was walking to Palmer Secondary School.

All of those gone in 28 days…

Finally I have a chance to get blogging again! After a short uptime during the summer of 2009, the WordPress blog crashed and I decided to let the blog go for quite a while until today. (Me stares at the long list of anime I still have to watch at the moment….)

But don’t worry, I will still post my occasional ramblings about life and society. And as an added bonus, whenever I decide to upgrade my final Domain Controller to Windows Server 2008, I am going to be sure to document my experiences with that procedure. (In place upgrades always scares me. No matter how it turns out, I still have high doubts about getting any version of Windows upgraded that way.)

In the coming months, I hopefully will be able to dedicate more time on resuming this blog and getting my words out in to the interwebs of the world.

Within these 2 years I’ve decided that I shall take up blogging once again. Yes, I am doing it again. This time much more improved. No more one huge assed paragraphs and less profane content. (I’m trying to reduce the profane content to keep the content at a PG-13 level. Seriously.)

So if you were reading what was going on here 2 years ago, I was somewhat overwhelmed by life and school in general. And there was a perfect chance for me to discontinue this blog: Liway’s server being shutdown due to issues with the VPS Provider, not Liway.

During these 2 years I’ve improved and accumulated skills on life in general and very recently got very intrested into Japanese Anime  (2 years ago if you asked me about Anime, I would have made the instant response that Anime isn’t my kind of entertainment.)

Also my skills on computing has improved as well. If you were searching on Google for ‘smb.curriegrad2004.ca’, that would be my own home based Active Directory domain. Currently that domain I’m running at home is isolated from the Internet and the only way of getting inside the network is you have to break through the ISA 2006 VPN Server first before you can even merely get into my network.

Oh well, I hope that you now enjoy this new and improved blog so keep your RSS clients subscribed to this blog in the meantime!