[Asterisk-Users] help on dial plan

[Patrick]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 10:05 -0500, Wooi Koay wrote:
> The following is my dialplan for outgoing international call.  What I want are:
> 
> - when people dial 9011604xxxxxxx , 9011605xxxxxxx, 90114411xxxxxxx,
> 90114421xxxxxxx, use voipstunt to dial out
> - otherwise, use my pstn to dial out.
> 
> What I've found is when i dial 9011604xxxxxxx , 9011605xxxxxxx,
> 90114411xxxxxxx, 90114421xxxxxxx, it always use the pstn to dial out. 
> Anything wrong with my dial plan?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> 
> [outbound-oversea]
> exten => _9011604.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4)  ;penang
> exten => _9011605.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4)  ;perak
> exten => _90114411.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4) ;uk landline
> exten => _90114421.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4) ;uk landline
> exten => _9011.,1,Macro(outgoingcall,${OUTBOUNDTRUNK})

Asterisk evalutates your extens from least to most significant. So the
_9011. is always selected first. To overcome this you could do: 

[outbound-oversea]
exten => _9011604.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4)  ;penang
exten => _9011605.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4)  ;perak
exten => _90114411.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4) ;uk landline
exten => _90114421.,1,Macro(outgoingcall3,${VOIPSTUNT},4) ;uk landline
include => outbound-oversea-zap-backup

[outbound-oversea-zap-backup]
exten => _9011.,1,Macro(outgoingcall,${OUTBOUNDTRUNK})

If you do "show dialplan outbound-oversea" in the Asterisk CLI than you
will see the order.

For more info see:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config
+extensions.conf+sorting

Regards,
Patrick