[SR-Users] Port change 5060

[Vijay Thakur]

Thanks for your kind help.

With Regards,

Vijay ++

On Monday 17 September 2012 02:55 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> On 17.09.2012 09:08, Vijay Thakur wrote:
>> All Experts,
>>
>> I want to change my SIP port from 5060 for other one. Before making any
>> change in my live server (Kamailio 3.2.1, i want to be sure.
>> Kindly suggest me that where should i make changes to implement it. This
>> is a security measure for kamailio from port scanning.
>
> This is just "security by obscurity" and of course your SIP proxy 
> configuration must be secure to handle such scanning attacks.
>
> Nevertheless these scans are annoying and using a non-default port is 
> a good practice. You can change the port easily with the "listen" 
> directive, see http://www.kamailio.org/wiki/cookbooks/3.3.x/core#listen
>
> Further, this snippet at the beginning of your config may help too:
>
>         # ignore requests generated by sipvicious
>         # User-Agent: friendly-scanner
>         if ($ua == "friendly-scanner") {
>                 exit;
>         }
>
> regards
> Klaus


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