[App_rpt-users] History of "ASL Registration Code"

[Steve Zingman]

And your point is? Not that this will see the light of day.

On 4/23/21 1:56 AM, Stacy via App_rpt-users wrote:
>
> The story behind the latest posting from Rob Vella KK9ROB, regarding 
> the "ASL Registration Code" post.  Posted here to be a matter of record.
>
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>
> The concept for the new registration was originally the idea of Jason 
> Kendall VE3YCA, however Jason was not able to spare cycles to work on 
> the new code as his job and life keeps him gainfully employed.  Around 
> September 2020, when Rob joined in a discussion on development with 
> several of us, registration came up as well as the desire to replace 
> the Asterisk 13 based registration servers, since they were still 
> running a hack that was done to chan_iax by me (with Tom Hayward 
> KD7LXL doing a minor initial mod that led to the start of the complete 
> hack).
>
> On 11 September 2020, Rob sent me a DM asking about ASL registration 
> and said "I've done a fair bit of socket programming for a work 
> project.  You think it would be a worthwhile venture to try to code an 
> IAX server? I was thinking about it earlier. Sniffed some packets, got 
> a familiar with the registration flow. It's only a few packets that 
> are sent and looks pretty straightforward."
>
> "It should be fairly straightforward to do so. There's only 5-7 total 
> packets to do a registration"
>
>  I told him he could and that there was an RFC for the protocol.
>
> Then on 13 September from Rob:
> "won't be able to make the morning meeting but wanted to let you know 
> that I was successful in getting an IAX server setup. have the full 
> registration flow working (without verifying password, just the 
> packets) through UDP. going to work more on it tomorrow to get is 
> authenticating against real data."
>
> "just need to do some refactoring. assuming that it's going to hit an 
> HTTP endpoint for registration, as Jason expressed, so i setup 
> something really basic to just authenticate or reject. i'll be 
> implementing that packet tomorrow."
>
> "so far it's super fast. less than 15ms to do a full registration. 
> excited to see where it goes."
>
> (of course there is more, like on 15 September the DM about "i 
> implemented client functionality, so as a validation measure, i could 
> literally forward the reaffic back out to a real reg server" or the 
> reply by me asking if this was in pyton "no. its in NodeJS. send the 
> hate. lol"
>
>
> Jason and Rob did quite a bit of testing on systems that were setup 
> just for this purpose.  Rob even requested and was provided the packet 
> captures from the live registration servers and said it helped a lot.
>
> Rob's front end was talking to the back end API that Jason wrote in 
> Python.  In fact, both pieces of code still exist in the now pttlink 
> registration servers and were running on the ASL servers.  
> Unfortunately, there was a bug in the IAXjs code that had to be 
> addressed, and Jason was able to do a work around to fix it.
>
>
> And for the record: Jason actually published an updated version of the 
> Python code about 3-4 months ago here: https://github.com/apprpt-central
>
> https://github.com/Apprpt-Central/pyIAX-Register
>
>
>
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