On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 11:24 -0800, John Todd wrote: > It would be possible right now to create a filter mechanism that would > allow you to whitelist/blacklist callers based on "Caller ID" in the > From: header, using existing DNS tools with probably very few > downsides.
I do it with enum, if there is a response its blacklisted, the same way RBLs work, in fact at one time before you were with digium I had approached you (John) about doing something like this, but it never went anywhere (dont feel bad others that had other infrastructure that was better suited to do this also said yes then it went silent). I had given up on doing this a couple years ago because I couldnt find anyone else particularly interested in actually going past the talking stage. I had even planned on doing different routes based on the call, which would terminate locally of course, but that way you could flag calls based on commercial, religious, political, scam, etc so that custom responses could be generated at the end users desire for each group, or allow some types but not others. There are some quirks in the way that asterisk deals with enum that would make this less desirable, but they can be overcome. And because its enum its not a single product solution, or a lot of new code, it would literally be a dialplan change for anyone that wants it, and enum being a standard it should work in a reliable way regardless of what switch technology was used, so long as it does enum. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
