VoIP in Lebanon

abctel2000 · 2010-06-05T18:50:53+00:00

An email about blocking VoIP in Lebanon has been circulating it says: As of June/1/2010 The Ministry of Telecom is blocking all Voice Over IP ports, which...

Kassem

Doesn't skype use VoIP? (am not really sure, I suck at all this networking stuff) I had a 30 min video call on skype today, everything was fine.

Dellitta

Here's what's happening:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=115693
"No one has noticed, but the Lebanese government is writing yet another chapter in the endless mockery of our rights as private citizens and social entrepreneurial agents of progress and change. The state is extending censorship over the remainder of our liberties into the last frontier of freedom – the internet and its supposed neutrality."

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=115693#ixzz0qDLG0dkv
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

abctel2000

Kassem wroteDoesn't skype use VoIP? (am not really sure, I suck at all this networking stuff) I had a 30 min video call on skype today, everything was fine.

I think only SIP is being blocked, (working on getting it to work again) as I am still able to use yahoo voice.

abctel2000

Here is some help, - http://www.speed-voip.com/

abctel2000

Any one please help, How do I change the outbound proxy settings in magicjack?

abctel2000

samer wrote
abctel2000 wrote
samer wrote Tunnel your traffic through SSH or VPN.
You will either need to pay for a commercial VPN service or install it yourself on a remote machine. Another way is to setup an SSH tunnel on your remote machine (or just a machine you have a shell account on) and have it transmit the traffic for you.
ssh -ND 5111 youraccount@remotebox.tld
This will create a tunnel between you and your remotebox. All the traffic you forward to port 5111 will be sent there. You will need to point your VoIP application to use localhost at port 5111 as a SOCKS proxy.
Samer,
I am using magicjack! How can I ?
Get a VPN account.

Magic jack support informed me that magicjack doesn't support VPN.

babum

does anyone know if skype is actually getting blocked or you can use without any problem?

amkahal

PC-to-PC not blocked yet, not sure about PC-to-Phone

babum

that's good news.

jilos

mikesterguy

samer wrote
Any other solutions?
Tunnel your traffic through SSH or VPN.
You will either need to pay for a commercial VPN service or install it yourself on a remote machine. Another way is to setup an SSH tunnel on your remote machine (or just a machine you have a shell account on) and have it transmit the traffic for you.
ssh -ND 5111 youraccount@remotebox.tld
This will create a tunnel between you and your remotebox. All the traffic you forward to port 5111 will be sent there. You will need to point your VoIP application to use localhost at port 5111 as a SOCKS proxy.

Samer,

SSH is used for tcp traffic like http, ftp
Sip protocol is transported over udp usually so ssh cannot work here

mikesterguy

mikesterguy wrote
samer wrote
Any other solutions?
Tunnel your traffic through SSH or VPN.
You will either need to pay for a commercial VPN service or install it yourself on a remote machine. Another way is to setup an SSH tunnel on your remote machine (or just a machine you have a shell account on) and have it transmit the traffic for you.
ssh -ND 5111 youraccount@remotebox.tld
This will create a tunnel between you and your remotebox. All the traffic you forward to port 5111 will be sent there. You will need to point your VoIP application to use localhost at port 5111 as a SOCKS proxy.
Samer,

SSH is used for tcp traffic like http, ftp
Sip protocol is transported over udp usually so ssh cannot work here

IP VPN is the only solution for magick jack, Outbound Proxy cannot be used because we don't have the SIP username and password , they are encrypted

mikesterguy

abctel2000 wrote
samer wrote
abctel2000 wroteSamer,
I am using magicjack! How can I ?
Get a VPN account.
Magic jack support informed me that magicjack doesn't support VPN.

sure it works, ip vpn is transparent to their sip server , it works on osi layer 3 and cannot affect the sip data on layer 7

jilos

Why do all of this, just get a voice gateway with tunneling capacity, it works fine for me

mikesterguy

jilos wroteWhy do all of this, just get a voice gateway with tunneling capacity, it works fine for me

Who is your provider?
i think ogero is the only one that blocks voip traffic...

jilos

I asked around, Tunneling works even with Ogero's connection, the standard DHCP connections are the ones being blocked i guess

Aj_BlaZ

just tried using skype called my cellphone and its working without any problem im subscribed to sodetel :)

wiseman

Hi guys, new member, you don't have to worry about this issue anymore, just get your vpn account from https://rapidsales.optimum-lb.com , i have tested it it works great and even you can surf the internet by an american IP , isn't it greate !!

mikesterguy

jilos wroteI asked around, Tunneling works even with Ogero's connection, the standard DHCP connections are the ones being blocked i guess

what do you mean by tunneling ? that's mean using sip over tcp ?

jilos

Tunneling with PPTP configuration, i don't have much technical details but i know that some routers are PPTP enabled. As for me i use a PPTP enabled voice gateway, other cheap gateways like Linksys don't have that option, they have standard DHCP configuration which doesn't work anymore.

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