@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

that time forgot.

and yes by "time forgot" I mean I forgot about it.

Found an email relay box at a client that time forgot. It is currently running Fedora 31.

Upgrading to 32 now. Then 33, 34, 35 and 36.

Welcome to current!

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

They might just be great, but then again - they might only be just - pretty good, or better than most.

Or even just not a shitshow.

@Pete-S said in POTS line replacement:

fire alarms are regulated by code. NFPA 72 for example.

More than just NFPA 72, but 72 is a good place to start.

The NFPA website is a good place to start.

You can find information like this FAQ pdf there.

6. Can non‐traditional telephone service be used with a digital alarm communicator
   system?

Yes, if the service is provided through a managed facilities‐based voice network (MFVN).

NFPA 72 addresses several means of transmitting alarm and other signals from a fire alarm system at a protected premise to a supervising station. The most widely used means is a digital alarm communicator system. These systems use a digital alarm communicator transmitter (DACT) connected through two transmission channels. The Code requires the primary channel to be a telephone line. The secondary channel can be a second telephone line, or one of 6 other transmission means.

With respect to the telephone line(s), the Code requires in 26.6.3.2.1.1 that the DACT be connected to the public switched telephone network upstream of any private telephone system at the protected premise. It also requires that the connection be to a loop start telephone circuit. Historically, this meant connection to the copper conductors of a plain old telephone system (POTS) traditionally provided by the telephone company. In recent years, providers of telephone service other than the traditional POTS service have become more common. The 2010 edition of the Code includes revisions to address the use of these non‐traditional types of telephone service.

The 2010 edition of NFPA 72 includes the following revised the definition of a public switched telephone network and a new definition of managed facilities‐based voice
networks:

• Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). An assembly of communications equipment and telephone service providers that utilize managed facilities‐based voice networks (MFVN) to provide the general public with the ability to establish communications channels via discrete dialing codes.
• Managed Facilities‐Based Voice Network (MFVN). A physical facilities‐based network capable of transmitting real time signals with formats unchanged that is managed, operated, and maintained by the service provider to ensure service quality and reliability from the subscriber location to public switched telephone network (PSTN) interconnection points or other MFVN peer networks.

The Code contains extensive explanatory annex information related to what is expected of a MFVN. It is important to recognize that telephone service that that is not provided through a physical facilities‐based network would not be covered under this definition. It is also important to understand that the telephone service provider’s communications equipment is expected to provide 8 hours of standby power for equipment installed on the premises or located in the field. This is in contrast to the 24 hours of secondary power required for the fire alarm system itself, including the DACT.

@scottalanmiller said in POTS line replacement:

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

Basically they connect to our network and install their "Phone for Business - Advanced device" (I'm guessing just a suped up ATA device) which will allows up to 8 analog that connect to a 66 Block.

So it's just... every day VOIP?

Not likely. Likely some weird VoIP.

Earlier I met up with @Dashrender and @Yonah-S for lunch in downtown Chicago.

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

We also kept one other POTS line for our main fax line also (not my call).

So sorry. Look into http://faxback.com
This is the service that Skyetel uses under the hood for their HTTPS based ATA fax device. If you already have Skyetel service, then just use it there.

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

We also have a call into our Security/Fire Alarm company on the costs of a replacement alarm system is and if it can work over cellular.

This is typically $50 or less on top of the existing monthly monitoring service costs.

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

Basically they connect to our network and install their "Phone for Business - Advanced device" (I'm guessing just a suped up ATA device) which will allows up to 8 analog that connect to a 66 Block.

You are guessing correctly. It is just a fancy ATA.
Because it is AT&T, I would assume that they are using T1 protocol delivered over IPv4/IPv6 or something similar.

@Pete-S said in rDNS PTR records - why?:

your own IPs

They really need to be your own IPs (reassigned because no end account ever actually owns them) and not just a randoms static IP from your ISP.

Enterprise fiber is one of the few places where i know the IP addresses are mine. I know they are, because I have the ARIN account for them.

@dmacf10 said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

working at a small ISP

Were they a WISP?

@Pete-S I forgot, that Mikrotik was a big name in the MSP market before that market went to NGFW stuff with subscription markups and returns.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

Does anyone have experience with Mikrotik's software firewall/routers?

only briefly at one recent customer.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

Or any opinion on their products in general, especially for business use?

Their modern gear seems to work well.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

I used to think they were some kind of garage company

Well they seemed aimed at the hobby market for a long time.

@Dashrender said in Email auto CC:

Yeah - this is straight up spying - in some states this would be illegal!

Which? Because most states I know the details of, this is 100% employer right.

@Fredtx said in Does block level sync exist?:

My main concern is that the copies are good in all locations

No your main concern is that your primary backup is good.

After that, it is just a copy operation. If you are worried about a copy operation, your solution is doing something wrong.

@scottalanmiller said in RDP/RDS hardening (borrowed from another topic):

I don't consider unpatched an issue - at least not an RDP issue.

That one had an exploit live before it was patched.

@Pete-S said in Weird DNS resolution issue:

I usually let the router act as a DNS forwarder or resolver and cache.

Always this.

@scottalanmiller said in RDP/RDS hardening (borrowed from another topic):

It has not, that's a myth to the best of my knowledge.

Not a myth. It has been exploited more than once. Here is one I had a link for. Unauthenticated attacker could run code. Sure it is patched. Sure if you are up to date, you are likely very secure. But it most certainly is not a myth that RDS has not had issues.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0708

You can clear the phone warning by putting this in your /var/www/html/nextcloud/config/config.php file. Obviously change the Country Cody appropriately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_elements

'default_phone_region' => 'US',

@WrCombs said in Frist time Headset ?:

@JaredBusch said in Frist time Headset ?:

@WrCombs said in Frist time Headset ?:

I dont have a phone app

You do....

@WrCombs said in Frist time Headset ?:

I'll just use zendesk phone once i get access is my thought process.

zendesk phone come from zendesk, its a feature of the ticketing system , no special application needed.

That is your phone app. I never said it had to be something separate. But it can still work with your headset depending on how the web app is designed.

Just did this today, except I used Fedora 36 and latest Nextcloud instead of 19.0.4

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/latest.tar.bz2