[asterisk-dev] Please consider adding new sip peer/Google Voice retry options

[Joshua Colp]

MichiganTelephone wrote:
>> The Google Voice servers have anti-attack/anti-spam/anti-something
>> built into them. If they sense you are doing something like the
>> above they will block you for a period of time. I know, it's
>> happened to me during the writing of chan_motif. This can even
>> happen if you just place many calls closely together. You need a
>> human factor in there.
>
> My question is, will they block you if you attempt a call, the call
> fails with the jingle-specific error you mentioned above, and only
> then do you immediately retry the call?  I can understand them
> blocking an account if they sense someone attempting mass calling or
> something like that, but if the call never went through on the first
> attempt, would they still block a retry half a second later?  It
> doesn't make sense to me that they would start whatever sort of timer
> they might use for their anti-attack/anti-spam algorithm on a call
> that failed to complete in the first place, but then this is Google
> we are talking about, where half of what they do makes no sense to me
> (particularly in regard to Google Voice).

Yes, even for an error situation like that it will still kick in from my 
experience.

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Joshua Colp
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