[asterisk-users] Question about "null routing" calls to DIDs we don't handle

[Warren Selby]

Why not setup a default catch-all route that goes to either your main line (to drive sales) or a pre-recorded message (the number you dialed is disconnected...etc), and then setup more specific pattern matches for assigned numbers?  I've done this before for clients that have large blocks of did's assigned to them but only a small number of extensions that need direct dial capabilities. 

Thanks,
--Warren Selby, dCAP

On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jesse Thompson <jesset at gmail.com> wrote:

> (reposted with correct subject line, I think messing up the subject
> line last time prevented my question from being read. Cheers :)
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jesse Thompson <jesset at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Letting a carrier use you as a carrier seems like quite a bad idea generally..
>> 
>> I think I would agree. :)
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> _NXXNXXXXXX => Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@upstream,120); // numbers not handled here get routed upstream....
>>> in the 'local' context instead of the other one?....
>>> 
>> 
>> So here is where the finer points of Asterisk pattern matching must
>> come into play.
>> 
>> All of the customer DID's match the pattern _NXXNXXXXXX. If we put
>> that pattern in the local context, then wouldn't that mean that calls
>> from a local customer to another local customer would match the
>> _NXXNXXXXXX pattern before even trying to match against the specific
>> patterns in the "clients" context? We need to be able to route
>> local-to-local calls without using two trunks to go back and forth
>> through the upstream provider.
>> 
>> Thank you for your input. I know this is a problem most operators can
>> get past, so there's got to be just something not lining up quite
>> right in my mental model. :)
>> 
>> - - Jesse
>> 
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