Comments on: The Incredible PBX: Remote Phone Meets the Travelin’ Man

By: spacemind

spacemind — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:46:20 +0000

Hum.. Why the need to have open ports to pbx server ??? The best option is to setup a light vpn server and connect by vpn to home router/pbx server instead of get a few ports opened at router. Openvpn works very good in raspberry pi with low resources, poptop also works great but the encryptation is very poor. It would be nice to see PBX in a Flash with an addon for VPN server, to create and manage vpn accounts. http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=20916 [WM: Huh? Where have you been? We've supported VPNs as far back as the Hamachi days. Currently we recommend NeoRouter and PPTP VPNs as the easiest to set up. But OpenVPN has been documented as well for years. We also have a stand-alone VPN in a Flash server that can be installed from any of the PIAF2 ISOs. And Incredible PBX includes turnkey NeoRouter and PPTP VPNs out of the box. Finally, Incredible PBX for Raspberry Pi supports NeoRouter and PPTP VPNs as well. Either can be configured in less than 5 minutes.]

By: Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:42:59 +0000

I have been using the incredible pbx 3.0. Absolutly love it. I finally got the Travelin’ Man to work remotely on a 3G iPhone with fqdn.dyndns.org:83/33333. I have read all the postings regarding how to add another extension to my network. I went in to config Edit 501 has my iPhone IP now extension 701 i entered the other ip of that phone. My problem is how do i get the 2 nd iphone to add the travelin man application with extension 701. I am assuming it’s fqdn.dyndns.org:81/with a new random 5 digits. I have been trying to do this for 1 month and i don’t get it. i thought once you went in to configEdit and edit extension 701 it will generate the 5 digits. I would greatly aprreciate any help.

[WM: Head to the forums for some help.]

By: Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:23:04 +0000

For the latest WhiteList solution for remote phones with dynamic IP addresses, see this thread on the PIAF Forums: http://nerd.bz/wtponq

By: steve

steve — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:25:15 +0000

Getting "Stopped" error when executing. This is a new install as of 1/17/2012. I had to install Incredible PBX 3 because I couldn’t get the 2.0 executable to work. Not sure where to look for errors.

A previous install of Travelin’ Man on an older Incredible PBX setup some months back went without a hitch. Not sure what’s up with this new install.

Is there any documention on how to manually implement Travelin’ Man? I still have access to the install from the old machine.

PIAF Installed Version = 2.0.6.2 Running on *HARDWARE*
FreePBX Version = 2.9.0.7
Running Asterisk Version = 1.8.8.0
Asterisk Source Version = 1.8.8.0
Dahdi Source Version = 2.6.0+2.6.0
Libpri Source Version = 1.4.12
Operating System = CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
Kernel Version = 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 – 32 Bit
Incredible PBX 3 Version = 3.0.3

By: ward

ward — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:12:43 +0000

For a dynamic approach using DynDNS, take a look at this recent article on the Michigan Telephone blog.

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:43:14 +0000

How do I uninstall this software.

[WM: Remove the entries from sip_custom_post.conf in /etc/asterisk. Then delete travelman.conf from /etc/pbx/httpdconf. Then restart Apache (service httpd restart) and Asterisk (amportal restart).]

By: ward

ward — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:04:53 +0000

A major SIP security vulnerability was discovered in all versions of Asterisk today. You can read all about it here.

We have developed a script which will quickly patch your Asterisk 1.8.x system and eliminate the problem. Log into your server as root and issue the following commands:

cd /root
wget http://incrediblepbx.com/sipfix
chmod +x sipfix
./sipfix

Please apply this patch immediately to protect your server!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:03:12 +0000

Quick question. When this is run and I do iptables -L it loses all the fail2ban rules. For now, I simply modified your index.php and placed an additional…

exec(‘sudo /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart’);

This adds the rules back in. Is this necessary or even a bad thing to do?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:23:50 +0000

Couldnt you do the same thing using hamachi?

By: gv

gv — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:23:54 +0000

For setting-up the softphone on iphone, what password do i have to use? i followed the instructions and i have everythng sets, however i am unable to connect remotely using my iphone with acrobits or mixphone softphone. it works fine when connected locally but no luck on remotely using my at&t data plan.

example:
username: 701
password: ?
server: my server’s ipaddress

[WM: Use your password for extension 701. It’s stored in FreePBX in the secret field for that extension.]

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:58:22 +0000

Should Google Voice integration work on the Bronze load? It does not work for me, but it works fine on the Silver load. [WM: Bronze is Asterisk 1.6. If you're using Incredible PBX and chose the Asterisk 1.6 option, you should be fine. If you manually installed Google Voice, then you'll need to change the piping | characters to commas in extensions_custom.conf and restart Asterisk. 64-bit shouldn't matter.]

By: Steve Peterson

Steve Peterson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:13:19 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for doing this. I finally did get it working. Running iPhone4 and the Bria for iPhone client. Initially had no audio. got a D-Link and that seemed to fix it (per Ward’s recommendation) Thank you very much.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:46:58 +0000

Slightly off topic question – any idea where I can get a ‘vanity’ toll free DID? I have 2 DID’s with Vitelity (used your signup link) but they seem to have a very limited selection of toll free DID’s.

By: Amygrant

Amygrant — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:33:31 +0000

Ward, seriously… you are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I think you are even better!

This is exactly something I was looking for. Thank you very much!

By: Dave Holowiski

Dave Holowiski — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:34:53 +0000

Thanks for the reply with the info on how to password protect the directories. That puts my mind at ease, and I’ll be setting this up on my system tonight. Thanks!

By: Joshua Welch

Joshua Welch — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:09:41 +0000

Okay, I'm sorry to be stupid, but does fail2ban also work on iax2 and sip connections? I was lead to believe it did by this article. And a quote from the article that says: "Just recently, we've added the latest release of Fail2Ban to all PBX in a Flash systems using our software update service. Fail2Ban blocks SIP and IAX attacks which are becoming more and more prevalent by locking IP addresses out of your server for a specified period of time whenever a designated number of invalid passwords are submitted." ... saying its from NerdUno himself. Can you clear this up??? [WM: Yep. Fail2Ban is there. Problem is that it reads your logs to work its magic. And with some high-speed computer attacks (e.g. Amazon S3), there can be thousands of attempts on your system before your poor little machine ever gets a sufficient processor time slice to read its log. In short, Fail2Ban is not real-time while Asterisk permit restrictions are. So permit restrictions are one more arrow for your security quiver if you choose to allow SIP or IAX connections to your system.]

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:54:01 +0000

Genius! This is just perfect. I have been wanting a solution for secure remote extensions and you have come up with it.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:51:57 +0000

This is great, and I will be setting it up this afternoon. Do you use robots.txt file to make sure that the directories don’t get indexed by search engines?

I think it would be nice if the user had to authenticate with a password, when visiting the URL, for an extra level of security.

WM: Directories won’t get indexed because there is no link to the subdirectories, but robots.txt is now included anyway. If you want password authentication for the directories, issue the script commands below which will honor all existing passwords on your system as well as any new ones you create using this command:

htpasswd /usr/local/apache/passwd/wwwpasswd username

Script to Activate Password-Protected Web Sites:

cd /etc/pbx/httpdconf
mv travelman.conf /root/.
wget http://incrediblepbx.com/travelman.conf
service httpd restart