Fred's Blog

This year, CommCon went on tour.

Join me in Chicago for ClueCon2024!

In June 2022, a new TLS module was announced: tls_wolfssl.

tl;dr: New venue, amazing people, well run, good food, great content.

We have a new go(lang) based APIBAN client that will send IP addresses directly to your chosen fail2ban jail.

It’s been a long time since I bought my first Mac and got an iPhone not much later.

Next stop, Berlin!

Well, so much for that.

Another day, another template… this time I’m trying out poison.

One does not speak unless one knows — The Mandalorian

I won’t be attending Astricon this year.

Kamailio World remains one of my favorite events of the year.

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.

Clearly, my goal of writing more in 2023 failed significantly.

In just a few weeks, I’ll be headed to ClueCon2023 in Chicago.

I love Kamailio World and cannot properly describe how excited I am to return to Berlin for an in person Kamailio World.

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.

We recently made some dramatic enhancements to the APIBAN infrastructure.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post are solely my personal views and opinions.

Another year, another quiet Thanksgiving in Gainesville.

I’ve learned a few things from Michael White throughout the time we’ve been friends.

I love git.

The wonders of troubleshooting SIP never cease.

Well, ITEXPO 2022 has come and gone.

Sangoma recently announced that Astricon 2023 will be co-located with ITEXPO in Fort Lauderdale.

When the bakery closed during Covid, one reason was Bank of America’s delays in handling of our emergency loan (PPP) request.

Ever get an error like this when running an apt update?

Generally, when I deploy Kamailio, I use git.

Last Thanksgiving, thanks to Covid, Thanksgiving was quieter than normal.

The major announcement at ClueCon 2021 was the release of FreeSWITCH 1.10.7.

APIBAN helps prevent unwanted SIP traffic by identifying addresses of known bad actors before they attack your system.

Recently, I posted about using Kamailio’s PIKE module to help block excessive SIP traffic.

After spending many years on Wordpress, I’ve decided to make a change in the software running this site.

The Pike module in Kamailio provides detection and alerting of “excessive” SIP traffic to your system.

Normally, I write these posts the night before Thanksgiving… after all, Thanksgiving remains my absolute favorite holiday.

Twenty years ago, I started The Palner Group, Inc. with the goal of providing technology consulting as a service. 2000 feels like a century ago (I’ve not thought about the millennium bug for some time now) and I’m using this anniversary to reflect on havi…

This has been a really different year.

Been a rough few months for the wife’s business and sadly, we had to announce the closure of Bearkery® earlier this week.

Well, 2020 is certainly a strange year… Some of us have been working from home for a very long time while others are now just understanding the benefits.

Had to install kamailio and rtpengine on centos8 recently… hopefully this saves you some time: https://github.com/fredposner/scripts/blob/master/kamailio/centos8_install.md

11 years and 1 branch (shown above)

Hoping that everyone is staying safe and seeing the impact to many of my friends has been nothing short of devastating.

Had a great time visiting with members of the open source VoIP community in Fort Lauderdale for open source world / itexpo 2020.

In 1990, while a freshman at UF (Go Gators!)

From February 11th through 15th, 2020, Open Source World (or open source summit?)

I’m not a programmer.

TL;DR A few weeks ago, I had some strong concerns over Sangoma’s stewardship of Asterisk and FreePBX.

A special spooky episode of ClueCon Weekly with guests Fred Posner and Dan Jenkins!

Did you catch Fred Posner on FLOSS Weekly discussing Kamailio?

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.