asterisk users - Sep 2003 - Programming 976 numbers from dialing out.

I would like to prevent * from dialing 900 and 976 numbers.  I setup the
following settings in extensions.conf. But this does not seem to work! I
don't know what I am doing wrong please help!

exten => 1900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
exten => 1XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
exten => 91900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
exten => 9XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
exten => 91XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion

Just as simple to call your telco and have those turned off then its not
an issue ever!

bkw

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Ariel Batista wrote:
> I would like to prevent * from dialing 900 and 976 numbers.  I setup the
following settings in extensions.conf. But this does not seem to work! I
don't know what I am doing wrong please help!
>
> exten => 1900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 1XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 91900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 9XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 91XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
>
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I think that you should put a _ at the beggining of each string to show that
it is a pattern to be matched instead of a literal extension.

Sean
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ariel Batista" <abatista@avionica.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Programming 976 numbers from dialing out.

> I would like to prevent * from dialing 900 and 976 numbers.  I setup the
following settings in extensions.conf. But this does not seem to work! I
don't know what I am doing wrong please help!
>
> exten => 1900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 1XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 91900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 9XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 91XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
>
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> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>

Or you could fix your dialplan:

exten => _1900X.,1,Congestion
exten => _91900X.,1,Congestion
exten => _1976X.,1,Congestion
exten => _91976X.,1,Congestion

This will block with both 9 prefix and without.

900 and 976 are area codes, but you have them as exchanges on some lines
below.

Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian West [mailto:brian@bkw.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:48 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Programming 976 numbers from 
> dialing out.
> 
> 
> Just as simple to call your telco and have those turned off 
> then its not
> an issue ever!
> 
> bkw
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Ariel Batista wrote:
> 
> > I would like to prevent * from dialing 900 and 976 numbers. 
>  I setup the following settings in extensions.conf. But this 
> does not seem to work! I don't know what I am doing wrong please help!
> >
> > exten => 1900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => 1XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => 91900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => 9XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> > exten => 91XXX976XXXX,1,Congestion
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com
> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> >
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You need to add a _ at the start of the string, to trigger pattern matching.

Eg: exten => _1900XXXXXXX,1,Congestion