[Asterisk-Users] strange problem PBX-Asterisk

[Peter Svensson]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Christian Victor wrote:

> > maybe I oversee somth. very obvious, but I'm a little puzzled about the 
> > following 'error':
> > 
> > When I make a call from the PBX to * I get number not available, but on 
> > debug I see, that asterisk is searching just for the first digit in the 
> > extension, which of course doesn't exist, eg:
> 
> I seems that you PBX uses "Overlap Dial" and transmits the extensien 
> digit by digit and Asterisk expects the extension to be "en bloc". So 
> when it receives anything from the PBX (wich is in this case the first 
> digit) Asterisk thinks that this is the whole block of extension.
> 
> Don't know how to fix it though. ;-)

This in case you are on a PRI: see "overlapdial" at
  http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+config+zapata.conf
It needs to be set on pri links where ovarlap dialing is used, even 
incoming towards asterisk.

Without more information on the connections between the systems and the 
configuration it is hard to figure out what is wrong.

Peter