asterisk users - Sep 2004 - Anti Ex-Girlfriend feature for entire area codes?

Hey all,

Someone's posted one of my 800#'s on a poster in California for free 
concert tickets, so I'm getting calls from California AC's at all times
of
the day asking for tickets. I'm just using the 800# for friends and 
family, and don't know anyone in these area codes, so I'd like to just 
give these callers either congestion or a prerecorded message.

Works fine if I do:

exten => 8005551212/4085551212,1,Congestion
exten => 8005551212/4085551212,2,Hangup()

But if I try:

exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,2,Hangup()

It doesn't catch it. Is there any way to do something similar and allow 
wildcards? Thanks!

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| nate carlson | natecars@natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com |
|       depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981            |
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Nate Carlson wrote:
> But if I try:
> 
> exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,2,Hangup()
> 
> It doesn't catch it. Is there any way to do something similar and allow
> wildcards? Thanks!
> 
See: 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20config%20extensions.conf

Look a few blocks into the examples section, you need an underscore in 
there.

When I saw this message, I realized that I goofed in my example for the 
.call file earlier today.

-- 
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:05:29 -0500 (CDT), Nate Carlson
<natecars@natecarlson.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Someone's posted one of my 800#'s on a poster in California for
free
> concert tickets, so I'm getting calls from California AC's at all
times of
> the day asking for tickets. I'm just using the 800# for friends and
> family, and don't know anyone in these area codes, so I'd like to
just
> give these callers either congestion or a prerecorded message.
> 
> Works fine if I do:
> 
> exten => 8005551212/4085551212,1,Congestion
> exten => 8005551212/4085551212,2,Hangup()
> 
> But if I try:
> 
> exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,1,Congestion
> exten => 8005551212/408XXXXXXX,2,Hangup()
> 
> It doesn't catch it. Is there any way to do something similar and allow
> wildcards? Thanks!
A pattern should start with an underscore, right?