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I am often asked why is DNSSEC such a PITA to implement, well, if you asked me this question ten years ago, I'd agree, maybe even five years ago, as then it was better, but still convoluted, so I get why many still are hesitant to use it, it's DNS, and nobody wants to mess up DNS, but Bind, since version 9.16 makes it very easy, it's even at the set and forget stage, so enabling DNSSEC in 2023 is child's play.
Every now and again it's time to determine what is more important to upgrade within IT budgets, and this time it's Email. This vote asked for what method you use to access your Email.
Results are in! And some of the results are a little surprising.
Linux Australia has had its fair share of controversy over the years, from reprehensible behaviour, bullying, sexual content at conferences (which were not age restricted), to the present day where we have an out of control power tripping dictatorship that includes making their own conferences up with no membership discussion.
Well, we've managed to survive the horrors of the world thus far and made it to April 2022, so as promised, here is an update on how the Aussie Broadband experience has been.
The positives - Front of house Level 2 support are terrific, FTTN reliability is excellent (but that's NBN not ABB), the speed is OK, and only outages I've experienced are a few pre planned NBN outages and a couple of ABB's middle of the night maintenance tasks, but from now on it goes down hill.
Before I continue, let me reassure you the UCM's do work, the devices are just restrictive, hardware and configurability wise, one of the most common complaints I hear is with Music On Hold, in our markets, the most popular method is streaming, be it a plug-in radio, or remote stream, and the UCM's can't do it.
(Original post February 14 2021 updated)
By default, ChanSpy, a supervisor function that allows you to monitor
other peoples calls, is enabled and can be used by anyone, yes, anyone, who's phone is logged in to a FreePBX system that has this feature enabled.
Sangoma don't allow you to secure it out of the box, instead, they try sell you some commercial module (that's about AU$145) that allegedly sets a PIN. But you can do it for free!
I am often asked why is DNSSEC such a PITA to implement, well, if you asked me this question ten years ago, I'd agree, maybe even five years ago, as then it was better, but still convoluted, so I get why many still are hesitant to use it, it's DNS, and nobody wants to mess up DNS, but Bind, since version 9.16 makes it very easy, it's even at the set and forget stage, so enabling DNSSEC in 2023 is child's play.
Every now and again it's time to determine what is more important to upgrade within IT budgets, and this time it's Email. This vote asked for what method you use to access your Email.
Linux Australia has had its fair share of controversy over the years, from reprehensible behaviour, bullying, sexual content at conferences (which were not age restricted), to the present day where we have an out of control power tripping dictatorship that includes making their own conferences up with no membership discussion.
Before I continue, let me reassure you the UCM's do work, the devices are just restrictive, hardware and configurability wise, one of the most common complaints I hear is with Music On Hold, in our markets, the most popular method is streaming, be it a plug-in radio, or remote stream, and the UCM's can't do it.
(Original post February 14 2021 updated)