asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Interesting bellster issue

This morning I set up my bellster account and purposly drained the account
to zero, so I could see how my * box will route the call.

When I make a call, bellster anounces that I have no credits and says
goodbye, but it still routes the call.

Any ideas?

I think this is a great idea.  My friends and I have been talking about
this for a while.  Now it is done :)

I think we need to have more granular control of allowed calls.  In
addition to setting the average call per hour, I would like to be able to
limit the total number of calls a day to any arbitrrary number.  Right now
it looks like the minimum number of calls per day can be 24.

Since my pots line is currently a metered line this can be a problem.  If
bellster starts to work I will consider switching the line to an
unmeasured line.

dhh

>>>>> "dhh" == dhickman  <dhickman@its-my.net>
writes:
dhh> When I make a call, bellster anounces that I have no credits and
dhh> says goodbye, but it still routes the call.

I just noticed another interesting problem: I checked that using
Congestion I can appropriately reject an incoming bellster call and
that another route is used (on extension +331, France,
Paris). However, the second route tried by bellster ended up with
"This is 9:25 local time, calls are only permitted from ... to
...". It means that the remote asterisk accepted the call to play the
message, instead of using Congestion to use another route or fail. I
"lost" one credit without having the call placed, but what is more
important is that no other route has been tried, and that my PBX
thinks that the call succeedeed and will not try an alternative route
such a Zap line.

The problematic route is 179.

  Sam
-- 
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam

>.... However, the second route tried by bellster ended up with
>"This is 9:25 local time, calls are only permitted from ... to
>...". It means that the remote asterisk accepted the call to play the
>message, instead of using Congestion to use another route or fail. I
>"lost" one credit without having the call placed, but what is more
The owner of this node has fixed the problem.

/ed


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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Interesting bellster issue

>>>>> "dhh" == dhickman  <dhickman@its-my.net>
writes:
dhh> When I make a call, bellster anounces that I have no credits and
dhh> says goodbye, but it still routes the call.

I just noticed another interesting problem: I checked that using
Congestion I can appropriately reject an incoming bellster call and
that another route is used (on extension +331, France,
Paris). However, the second route tried by bellster ended up with
"This is 9:25 local time, calls are only permitted from ... to
...". It means that the remote asterisk accepted the call to play the
message, instead of using Congestion to use another route or fail. I
"lost" one credit without having the call placed, but what is more
important is that no other route has been tried, and that my PBX
thinks that the call succeedeed and will not try an alternative route
such a Zap line.

The problematic route is 179.

  Sam
-- 
Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam

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