[asterisk-users] Configuration / dialplan problem

[Kevin Smith]

There are a few things to look at.

First off, you have a lot of wildcard testing that is probably throwing 
the dial plan off. For example, you have the following:

exten => _07956nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _07879nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _07862nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _07.,1,Congestion()

If I left it in this order what would happen? From what I understand it 
is nautral to think in that order, but really Asterisk is going to sort 
the extensions something like this:

exten => _07.,1,Congestion()
exten => _07956nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _07879nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _07862nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})

So now say you dial 07545865143254/8564, it will go to the Congestion 
application every time.

What I would do is comment out the wildcard searches and see if that 
resolves the problem. If so, try putting all the wildcard tests in an 
include and see if that helps.

Take a look at these to articles as well:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Extension+Matching
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config+extensions.conf+sorting

Also just out of observation, why all the testing? Seems to me you could 
streamline that code down a bit more. For example, the 01 and 02 tests. 
If you know they are dialing N number of digits, make the test 
_01XXXXXXXXXX, so you know they have to dial a certain amount of digits 
to be a valid call. Why send a 4 digit number out your trunk if you know 
it isn't going anywhere? If you need to dial '0' then 10 digits, try this:

 _01NXXNXXXXX,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
 _02NXXNXXXXX,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
 _07956XXXXX,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN}) 3

etc.

Hopefully that will help,

Kevin


Mark Muffett wrote:
> I have my extensions.conf set up as follows:
>
> exten => _Z.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _07956nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _07879nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _07862nnnnnn,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _01.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _02.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _0800.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _0845.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _0870.,1,Dial(${OUTBOUNDTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _09.,1,Congestion()
> exten => _00.,1,Congestion()
> exten => _07.,1,Congestion()
>
> (where nnnnnn are actually real digits).
>
> I would expect this to let me dial the 07956nnnnnn numbers etc while
> stopping dialing to other 07... numbers, but it seems to stop dialling
> to any 07... number including the 3 specifically listed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
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