[Asterisk-Users] Re: Interesting bellster issue

[David John Walsh]

Surely no other route would be tried in this instance, for as far as 
all devices are concerned the A party and B party were connected 
correctly, albeit in this instance to an announcement shelf device.

I agree that the A party has a right to be annoyed at the loss of 
credit, but this has been tradition within telco's for as long as i can 
remember, as a call channel costs significantly more bandwidth than 
signaling

The only time you don't lose credit (or get billed in traditional 
terms) is when the announcement shelf is contained within the same 
network as the A party.

Why do you think that providers tend to offer free voicemail, to ensure 
every call is connected and further more get the call in the other 
direction

It is however an interesting way of accruing free credits on the 
network.

Food for thought

David


On 26 Jan 2005, at 08:30, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

>>>>>> "dhh" == dhickman  <dhickman at its-my.net> writes:
>
> dhh> When I make a call, bellster anounces that I have no credits and
> dhh> says goodbye, but it still routes the call.
>
> I just noticed another interesting problem: I checked that using
> Congestion I can appropriately reject an incoming bellster call and
> that another route is used (on extension +331, France,
> Paris). However, the second route tried by bellster ended up with
> "This is 9:25 local time, calls are only permitted from ... to
> ...". It means that the remote asterisk accepted the call to play the
> message, instead of using Congestion to use another route or fail. I
> "lost" one credit without having the call placed, but what is more
> important is that no other route has been tried, and that my PBX
> thinks that the call succeedeed and will not try an alternative route
> such a Zap line.
>
> The problematic route is 179.
>
>   Sam
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> Samuel Tardieu -- sam at rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam
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