[asterisk-users] Blacklisting Toll-Free etc.

[voiplist]

On 8/18/07, Arnaud Ligot <arnaud at cblue.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You can generate a file using bash for example which will be included
> inside extension.conf.
>
> for example, in bash:
>
> for i1 in `seq -f %02g 0 99`
>  do for i2 in `seq -g %06g 0 999999`
>         echo 'exten => _N$i1N'$i2'/_888NXXXXXX,n,Playback(GoAway)'
> done; done > extension-include.conf
> ...
>
> you will probably want to reduce the range of number if you don't want a
> really really really long file...
>
> an other way would be to execute a macro/agi for each call which will
> make your checks.
>
> best regars,
>
> Arnaud.
>
>
> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 14:06 -0500, voiplist wrote:
> > I have always been able to block toll-free numbers by catching them
> > with a line similar to this for each DID I have on my system:
> >
> > exten => 5554441212/_888NXXXXXX,n,Playback(GoAway)
> >
> > Where 15554441212 is one of the DIDs that rings into our Asterisk box.
> >
> > The problem with this approach that I have to create a line like this
> > for every pattern I want to block multiplied by every DID on my
> > system, this gets old.
> >
> > So for example, if I have 20 DIDs that ring into my box, and I want to
> > block 10 caller-id's or caller-id patterns I need like 200 lines in my
> > extensions.conf.
> >
> > What I want to do is something like this:
> >
> > exten => _NXXNXXXXXX/_888NXXXXXX,n,Playback(GoAway)
> >
> > This never seems to work, why? Is there another way to block all calls
> > from a particular caller-id or caller-id pattern without specifying
> > the exact DID/Extension?
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Todd R.
> >
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Arnaud,

Thanks but I already knew how to do it with an AGI and I know how to
create the text file with some script. I was really just looking for a
better way to do it within Asterisk logic itself, mostly because I am
curious.

Regards,
 Todd R.

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