Category Archives: GrandStream

Getting outside

I’m trenching a ditch. I’m hoping to run a few 25-pair telco cables, some fiber, a few coax cables, 240v power, 120v power, natural gas and perhaps a few cat-6 cables through it. Assuming the authorities approve, of course. .

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STUN server up

cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/svn/debian/stun/stun-0.96.dfsg$ dig +short _stun._udp.colliertech.org SRV 10 0 3478 stun.colliertech.org. cjac@foxtrot:/usr/src/svn/debian/stun/stun-0.96.dfsg$ ./client stun.colliertech.org STUN client version 0.96 Primary: Dependent Mapping, preserves ports, no hairpin Return value is 0×000019 Also of note, the web server now redirects requests for the blog on … Continue reading

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New whiteboarding

I should also sketch out the physical and virtual circuits at and between each PoP as well as the vast array of Virtual Machines provisioned on the hypervisors.

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ATA and MDF

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Service Interruption

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 ███████████ █████, During the month of June, we experienced a service interruption which has caused our mutual customer, ███████████ ███████ ███ School, an inability to initiate outgoing calls. CenturyLink has also caused the interruption … Continue reading

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Spinning up a telco with Asterisk

Back in 2010 our family moved to an island in an archipelago in the very top left of the US’s continental 48. Before moving, we did some research regarding high speed network access. There are a number of ISPs in … Continue reading

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