Re: GNU Gatekeeper 3.9 is available

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Hi,

there are a few fixes for the unregistered NAT procedure in CVS HEAD
now.

Regards,
Jan

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Robert Edeker wrote:
> No luck with NAT, but 3.9 seems to be working fine in general.
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:02 PM Jan Willamowius <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > the new NAT traversal technique is intended to help with inbound calls
> > from clients that are behind a NAT and are not using H.460. So far we
> > only tested it in environments that only get inbound calls and don't
> > make any outbound calls, but it should work in all cases (except that
> > as before you won't be able to call out to users behind a NAT in mosts
> > cases). Please try it and report your results.
> >
> > The GeoIP feature currently only works by country, because thats what
> > I needed. There is a similar database that would allow checking for
> > states and cities. Extending the code to use the other database is
> > probably not that difficult.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> >
> > Robert Edeker wrote:
> > > Very exciting, will have to try it out on my test gatekeeper.
> > >
> > > On the new NAT will that help when one side doesn't do NAT very well? We
> > > don't use h.460, but at times have issues with remote callers and NAT on
> > > their side.
> > >
> > > On geoip: have not looked at the db, but is it granular within a country?
> > > I'm already limiting this on the firewall side, but again it's the entire
> > > country.
> > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM Jan Willamowius <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I am pleased to announce a new release of the GNU Gatekeeper,
> > > > version 3.9, now available from http://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html
> > .
> > > >
> > > > This release includes source code suitable for Linux, Windows, MacOS X,
> > > > FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris and executables for Linux.
> > > >
> > > > -- Jan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Whats new in GnuGk 3.9 ?
> > > >
> > > > - bug fixes, including a crash and hanging status port on Windows
> > > >   servers
> > > >
> > > > - a new IP/port detection algorithm for endpoints behind NAT that works
> > > >   well even with unregistered (!) endpoint
> > > >
> > > >   H.460 NAT traversal requires all endpoints to register with their
> > > >   gatekeeper. Thus users have to enter IPs in config dialogs etc.
> > > >   With this new port detection, they can start making calls right
> > > >   away to <alias>@<gatekeeper IP> or <gatekeeper IP>##<alias>.
> > > >
> > > > - neighbor pings to speed up call routing if your neighbors are
> > > >   frequently down
> > > >
> > > >   Neighbors get pinged with an LRQ and if they don't respond with
> > > >   either LCF or LRJ GnuGk will skip them in the call routing without
> > > >   waiting for a timeout.
> > > >
> > > > - geo-blocking
> > > >   with the GeoIPAuth policy, you can allow or block calls based on the
> > > >   location of the IP
> > > >
> > > > - status port event back log
> > > >   When you connect to the status port to diagnose an issue, the
> > > >   relevant events are already gone. With this new feature you can tell
> > > >   GnuGk to save the last n events and show them later on. This way you
> > > >   can take a look at eg. the last 100 failed registrations etc.
> > > >
> > > > - QoS DiffServ marking for RAS, H.225 and H.245 messages (based on a
> > > >   patch provided by Vidyo)
> > > >   Now you can set the DiffServ class for signaling messages.
> > > >   Previously you could only mark RTP packets.
> > > >
> > > > - support for H.235.TSSM
> > > >   H.235 needs time synchronization between gatekeeper and endpoints and
> > > >   the proposed H.235.TSSM standard provides a means for endpoints to
> > > >   detect that they are not in sync with the gatekeeper and apply a time
> > > >   offset.
> > > >
> > > > Download from http://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html


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