New Look for the Blog

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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->>Kamailio: 200 OK Kamailio->>Alice: 200 OK Seems like a pretty awesome feature for someone who blogs a bit about SIP, no?

Astricon 2024/ITEXPO

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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). Astricon, in past years, attracted an audience of more than 1000 attendees, a decent sized expo (focused on open source telephony), and multiple presentation tracks held over several days. This year, similar to last year’s Astricon, the conference will be a single track and (new for 2024) only one day long.

Kamailio World 2024 Announced

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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. I’ve gotten the tickets… I’ve made my reservations at the new venue… and I am ready to see Kamailians from across the globe as we discuss all things Kamailio. If you’ve never been, you can see some past events on the Kamailio World YouTube Channel.
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. I started APIBAN back in 2020 and for the past 3 years have greatly enjoyed helping others protect their SIP systems from IP addresses sending unwanted traffic. The service is provided for FREE.

Thanksgiving Message 2023

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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. This year presented many challenges and with challenging years, it becomes harder to focus on giving thanks. Of course, when we do take the time to focus, the difficulties fade. I am incredibly grateful to have a healthy daughter. Although, with starting school, we’ve experienced the stereotypical petri dish of diseases (enough where the pediatrician’s office knows us by sight), our visits are always something that can be resolved quickly.

Going to ClueCon2023

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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. This year, I’ll be giving a talk called Kamailio with FreeSWITCH B2BUA: Sometimes, you just want a B2BUA that’s not touching media. FreeSWITCH does this very well and with Kamailio and RTPengine you have a very scalable, high performant B2BUA SBC.

Kamailio World 2023

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I love Kamailio World and cannot properly describe how excited I am to return to Berlin for an in person Kamailio 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. It’s been a few years since we last visited Fraunhofer Forum in Berlin to gather for the conference and I’m very excited to see old friends and meet new people.

Kamailio 5.7.0 Released

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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!). Some highlights of this new release: 4 brand new modules (including tls_wolfssl) topos option to mask call-id options for loading modules support for long values instead of int for variables new variables and transformations For more information check out https://www.
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. If you’re not familiar, 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. You can access this data via API or automatically block the traffic with our open source client.