[asterisk-users] Strange behaviour with Dial cmd

[Il Neofita]

Ok thank you a lot!!!

On 2/15/07, Yuan LIU <yliu11 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From: "Il Neofita" <asteriskmail at gmail.com>
> >Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:37:14 -0500
> >
> >But I tought that hangup was suppose to close the call, however, is not
> the
> >case and a really did not catch why.
>
> Now I see where the confusion comes from.  Asterisk doesn't really speak
> English - or Chinese for that matter:-)  In telephony, there is no way for
> the callee to tell the caller to stop ringing - unless you "answer" it
> first.  Once you answer, you can do a number of things, the rudest being
> to
> immediately hang up. (I saw live people doing this intentionally.)  Your
> only other option really is to ignore.
>
> I just thought up this simple method to ignore: divert the dial plan to
> simply Wait() an unreasonable amount of time in hope that the caller hangs
> up.
>
> exten => s,1,Dial(yourcell,5)
> exten => s,n,Wait(300)
>
> That's assuming your provider provides disconnect supervision.  You can
> also
> Play(prerecorded,noanswer) if your provider supports it. (Won't hurt to
> try
> even if not - but disconnect supervision is a must.)
>
> Yuan Liu
>
>
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