Updated firmware OBi 200/202/212 devices?
SteveInWA:
Quote from: RFC3261 on July 18, 2021, 06:02:26 am
Quote from: SteveInWA on July 10, 2021, 05:16:29 pm
The non-trivial part would be distributing the update(s) via a combination of pushing to devices that are enabled for remote updates, posting links for manual downloads of the firmware, and dealing with the thousands of people who have disabled updates without understanding what they've done, and then ranting and raging. It's going to be a shit-storm.
Don't forget the non-zero number of customers whose OBi's will fail the firmware update and/or the reboot (the flash programming fails, the power supply is right at the edge such that a reboot pushes it over, etc.).
"The firmware bricked my OBi!" will be the new rant of the day.
I wonder if Poly has a canary deployment process as part of their firmware pushes so that the thundering herd issue can at least be mitigated.
Best case: since only the certificate needs to be replaced in the firmware, it should simply work. Of course, as you point out too, there will be a lot of failures to update for one reason or another.
Unfortunately, there is no way to "beta test" the fix. The only way to test it would be to update the firmware on a device, which would then make it unable to authenticate with Google's servers until after Google also updates the servers with the new certificate. Conversely, if Google replaced the certificate on their servers now, all of the currently-working devices would fail to authenticate until they are updated. There are additional details that preclude testing in advance, but this summarizes it.
As soon as I have any new information to share, I'll post it here:
https://support.google.com/voice/thread/114914789
MSRobi:
I've seen that post when you first announced it. It shows at the top of the post "6/26/21". I now see at the bottom of it "last edited 6 days ago". I also see the changed wording there that "Poly is working on a new firmware release.", which is a big deal that you have confirmation that they are working on the update.
RFC3261:
Quote from: SteveInWA on July 18, 2021, 11:20:09 am
Unfortunately, there is no way to "beta test" the fix.
Are you sure about that?
Proper x509 certification validation supports multiple root certificates and chains, all of which can be in various stages of being valid, becoming valid, and becoming expired. That is the entire point of the entire x509 ecosystem.
To not support multiple x509 certificates and chains would mean Poly engineers are brain dead (which, I suppose, is possible).
lrosenman:
Based on the banner on obitalk.com, the new Firmware is out and will be auto-updated 8/5/2021 at 17:00 PDT. You can also do the update NOW by following the instructions in the link in the banner.
Andy_Shiekh:
Much appreciated
https://www.poly.com/us/en/support/knowledge-base/kb-article-page?lang=en_US&urlName=OBi1K-Phones-OBi2K-Phones-and-OBi2xx-Series-ATA-Device-Manual-Update-Instructions-For-Latest-Firmware-Version
I am delighted that I can keep on using Google Voice
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