[Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List

[Chris Shaw]

Why use AGI? Why not just use the builtin DBGet() and DBPut() functions in
*?

    -Chris

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From: "drodden" <drodden at webunited.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call" List


> Anybody have any experience with blocking numbers in the U.S's Do Not
> Call list?
>
> We have a customer that will be getting their own Asterisk server from
> us, and they want it to be check outbound numbers against the do not
> call list; this is for a backup, in case there's a slip up and one of
> their people try to dial somebody on the do not call list.
>
> The list has millions of numbers, and I don't think the extensions.conf
> file could handle me listing all million+ phone numbers and making it
> play a sound like "That number is on the do not call list", and then
> creating a _NXXNXXNXXX extension at the very bottom. The list would take
> up all it's memory. Anybody have a more elegant solution? Maybe an AGI
> script to match the outbound phone number against a column in a table in
> a MySQL database? Is there something similar already written that I can
> just modify?
>
> I know one of our T1 PRI Providers support this feature, but I don't
> want to block the list from all of our customers, just this one
> customer. Maybe they can do source+destination based blocking. I'd still
> prefer it be done through Asterisk. Suggestions?
>
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