asterisk users - Oct 2004 - Outbound IAX calls stop ringing remote phone, yet can still pick up

add an r to the end to your dial statement


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen David" <steve@davidnj.net>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound IAX calls stop ringing remote phone,yet 
can still pick up

> Greetings,
>
> I've recently encountered some strange behavior placing outbound calls 
> using IAX via a VOIP provider.  Intermittently, calls placed will ring the 
> called phone a couple times, then the ringing stops.  However, even after 
> a few seconds of silence i can pick up the phone and the call is 
> connected.
>
> I've tried this with two different VOIP providers (voicepulse and
nufone),
> and have experienced the behavior on both.
>
> Any ideas?  I would've thought that the voip provider would be
responsible
> for generating the ring tones, but i'm not sure.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
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Greetings,

I've recently encountered some strange behavior placing outbound calls using
IAX via a VOIP provider.  Intermittently, calls placed will ring the called
phone a couple times, then the ringing stops.  However, even after a few seconds
of silence i can pick up the phone and the call is connected.

I've tried this with two different VOIP providers (voicepulse and nufone),
and have experienced the behavior on both.

Any ideas?  I would've thought that the voip provider would be responsible
for generating the ring tones, but i'm not sure.

Regards,
Steve

>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I've recently encountered some strange behavior placing
outbound calls
>>>> using IAX via a VOIP provider.  Intermittently, calls placed
will ring
>>>> the called phone a couple times, then the ringing stops. 
However,
>>>> even after a few seconds of silence i can pick up the phone and
the
>>>> call is connected.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried this with two different VOIP providers
(voicepulse and
>>>> nufone), and have experienced the behavior on both.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  I would've thought that the voip provider would
be
>>>> responsible for generating the ring tones, but i'm not
sure.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Steve
>>> add an r to the end to your dial statement
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen David"
<steve@davidnj.net>
>>> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:06 PM
>>> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Outbound IAX calls stop ringing remote
>>> phone,yet can still pick up
>>>
>>>
>
>> That will, of course HIDE any BUSY or telco messages.  And the caller
>> will never know of they dialed an invalid number or of the number they
>> dialed is busy.  Do you think he REALLY wants that?
>>
>> Steve Totaro wrote:
>I don't know, but sweeping the problem under the rug with "r"
is not a
>solution except as a last resort.  Regardless of if he ends up using
"r"
>or not he needs to know what other problems "r" will cause.
>
>What we really need is a console output of a call that happens with 
>(hopefully with a note where the ringback actually stops).
>
Thanks, both.  However, i was talking about the ringing for the 'CALLED'
party, no the 'CALLING' party.  I don't care about the ringing for
the calling party because its an oubound dialing app using .CALL files.  The
ringing (periodically) stops after 2 rings or so -- but the CALLEE can still
pick up the line and connect the call.

also, killing the call progress information for the call is no an option -- i
need to know if the lines was busy / no answer.  (don't worry, NOT a
telemarketing app!)

can you think of any reason why the CALLEE's line would stop ringing after 2
rings (sporadically), while the line is still active?