Asterisk Documentation Project

We’re currently working on a complete website re-design that has been slow in the making, but some related technologies that were required to keep the information up to date have been progressing nicely. We hope to have a new website up and running sometime in 2009. For now, you can obtain the most recent version

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Apple dropping DRM from music in iTunes, keeping DRM for audiobooks

Looks like Apple’s going to drop the DRM on the music in the iTunes store — but there’s no indication that the DRM that’s too evil to be borne for music will be likewise dropped from audiobooks and video. Right now, Apple will only sell audiobooks from Audible — and Audible will only sell audiobooks

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VMware Fights Fire with Fire

VMware has imported another ex-Microsoft veteran to fight Microsoft, its worst enemy. This time it’s Tod Nielsen plucked out of Borland, where he’s been CEO for the last three years, to be VMware’s chief operating officer, a specially created job that reports to fellow Microsoft veteran, VMware CEO Paul Maritz.

Back in Microsoft’s golden age,

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Implementing NAT And NAT-T

RFC 1631

1. Static NAT

- allows public host to communicate with a private host by creating a static one-to-one IP translation entry

2. Dynamic NAT

- pool of available addresses are assigned to private hosts for internet access on an ad-hoc basis by creating a dynamic one-to-one IP translation entry

3. NAPT (PAT)

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Denial Of Service Attack – DOS/DDOS

Exhausts a resource limitation on the network (eg TCP, ICMP) or within an OS or app (eg HTTP, FTP ie keeping open all available connections supported by that server) to make the service unavailable for normal use

- Among the most difficult to completely eliminate because of the way they use protocol weaknesses and ‘native’

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