<div dir="ltr">Could this possibly mean that any person who has CF set should never be available as CF Destination. Simple db entry/check can have this done.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dk@donkelly.biz" target="_blank">dk@donkelly.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin Larsen<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 2, 2015 4:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] Forward loop protection...<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> Ia had a server overload today because someone did a call forward </span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br><tt>> to their own extension. To do a call forward I write a key called CFWD </tt><br><tt>> with the extensión number and number to dial . The main script tests if </tt><br><tt>> the key/value exists and dials the number stored in the database. What </tt><br><tt>> is an easy way to prevent dumb people from creating a loop?</tt><br></span><br><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Right after you have read the number to call forward to, compare it to the number you are call forwarding from. If it matches, play the user an error message and have them try again.</span></tt> <br><br><tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">And no matter what you do, the dumb people will come up with more creative ways to tank your phone system. A large amount of my dialplan code is taking into account the stupid things they have done and handling it properly if they do it again. I swear, if you could harness their creativity for good you could solve the world's problems 10 times over.<u></u><u></u></span></tt></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The loop checking is a bit more challenging than that. If Bob forwards to Fred and Fred forwards to Sue, all is well when Bob and Fred head out for a beer. A little later, we’re in deep doo-do0 when Sue forwards to Bob. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> --Don<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><br>--<br>
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