APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional Review – Part 4

We’ve used this program quite a bit over the past few weeks off and on when we had time for proper testing. Please see our previous articles for more information on this program, and while you’re at it, don’t forget to upload your personal Asterisk Dialplan diagrams to our awesome sister site Rate My Dialplan.com, where you can rate and share your Asterisk Dialplans. Here’s a screenshot of the program, and links to our previous three articles....

May 29, 2008 · 2 min · 396 words · Matt G

Deploying Asterisk Dialplans with APSTel Visual Dialplan – Part III

Earlier, we spoke about the basic features of APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional, and some Advanced Features in part ii of our series. This article will deal with deploying your dialplan to a remote server. Remember, once you’ve created some dialplans to post them on our other site, Rate My Dialplan.com. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links....

May 29, 2008 · 5 min · 857 words · Matt G

Advanced Features of APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional – Part II

In our Previous Article, , We spoke about the basics of the program. Here we’ll briefly touch on some of the advanced features that we were able to edit using the APSTel Visual Dialplan professional program. Remember, you can use these diagrams on our sister site, Rate My Dialplan.com. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links....

May 28, 2008 · 3 min · 530 words · Matt G

Creating Visual Asterisk Dialplans with APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional – Part I

Today we’re going to talk about an interesting program from APSTel Visual Dialplan, which enables you to create Dialplans for your Asterisk PBX in a visual method. This enables both new Asterisk users, and seasoned professionals to quickly and efficiently create Asterisk Dialplans. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links. This article is the first in a series of four, describing the inner workings of the product, how to use it, some advanced features, deploying dialplans and finally a review on the product....

May 27, 2008 · 4 min · 829 words · Matt G

How to fix your hackable SSH on Debian and Ubuntu Servers

If you’re running debian or ubuntu, your ssh keys are vulnerable. Follow these steps to regenerate them and secure your box back up. apt-get update apt-get upgrade cd /etc/ssh/ rm ssh_host_dsa_key rm ssh_host_dsa_key.pub rm ssh_host_rsa_key rm ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ssh-keygen -t dsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key) ssh-keygen -t rsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key) /etc/init.d/ssh restart Comments Comment by Christopher DeMarco on 2008-05-15 15:11:28 -0500 This only fixes connections from this host to others. Inbound connections are still problematic!...

May 15, 2008 · 1 min · 120 words · Matt G