[Asterisk-Users] ASTCC: potential billing issue and "fix"

[Nabeel Jafferali]

Before I start, I just want to say this is not necessarily a problem
with ASTCC, but may be a problem the way I have set up ASTCC (and
possibly the way others have set it up as well). The issue is that ASTCC
tries to match the pattern *anywhere* in the called number, not
necessarily only at the beginning.

I have set up ASTCC Routes like this:

1800		Tollfree	Trunk1	0	0	100
1416		Canada	Trunk2	0	0	400
- other NANPA codes -
1		USA		Trunk1	0	0	400
011971	UAE		Trunk3	0	0	3000
- other international codes -

Now, for "other international codes" I have not included all the
countries, just the ones that are important for now. I has expected to
add others as they became necessary. However, today somebody called
"011966..." which is not one of the included countries. I guess it
instead picked up the "1" pattern and billed the call at 4c per minute.

To get around this, I tried to add:

011		Other		Trunk3	0	0	10000

which should have charged $1 per minute for all other countries and sent
them out Trunk3. If I call "011966..." it works fine. But, if I call
"011416..." it picks up the NANPA pattern for Canada defined, instead of
the non-NANPA "catch-all" I have defined.

I tried to fix the problem by adding "0112" to "0119" patterns (4-digit,
to make a "better" pattern match) to the routes table, so "011416..."
would pick up "0114" instead of "1416", but it didn't work. Reordering
the mySQL table so these 8 non-NANPA catch-alls appeared at the top of
the table (before the "1416" and other NANPA entries) fixed it though.

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