[Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan Sequencing

[David Gomillion]

Hello.  I have never run into this problem.  What I would do is inserted
below:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen R. Besch
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: asterisk users list
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan Sequencing
> 
> I have an interesting dilemma with sequencing in the dialplan.  Up to
> now, I have assumed that the extensions in the dial plan were tested
in
> the order that they appear in extensions.conf.  In other words, I have
> the following fragment which was designed to dial toll free on the
PSTN
> and all other long distance on VoIP:
> 
> [longdistance]
;> include => local
>                                         ;Handle local, etc first. (or
so
> I thought!)
> exten => _91NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(${VPLSTRUNK}/${EXTEN:1})        ;Dial
long
> distance through VoiP
> exten => _91NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion
>               ;OOPS! No lines available?
> :
> :
[reallongdistance]
include => local
include => longdistance

> 
> [local]
> :
> exten => _91800NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN}) ;     Long
distance
> toll free accessed through PSTN trunk interface
> exten => _91800NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> exten => _91888NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _91888NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> exten => _91877NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _91877NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> exten => _91866NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
> exten => _91866NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> 
> ; The rest of the local definitions, etc
> :
> 
> I expected that the "_918" definitions would be tested first, followed
> by the "_91N" definitions.  Unfortunately, it appears as if the
> definitions made using the "include=" operator are always tested last.
> This means that the toll free numbers dialed by people in the
> longdistance context are always routed over VoIP rather than PSTN
> because they match the "_91N" pattern.  While I can fix this with a
> complicated set of conditionals or dial string patterns, I wonder if
> anyone has found a more elegant solution, remembering that I want to
> give some extensions access to only the local context, but still
provide
> toll free service for everyone (i.e, I don't want to move the "_918"
> definitions into the longdistance context).
> 
> Stephen R. Besch
> 
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Whadda ya think?