Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan Sequencing

Stephen R. Besch Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:00:09 -0800

David Gomillion wrote:

Hello.  I have never run into this problem.  What I would do is inserted
below:
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan Sequencing
I have an interesting dilemma with sequencing in the dialplan. Up to now, I have assumed that the extensions in the dial plan were tested
in

the order that they appear in extensions.conf. In other words, I have the following fragment which was designed to dial toll free on the

PSTN

and all other long distance on VoIP:

[longdistance]

;> include => local

;Handle local, etc first. (or

so

I thought!) exten => _91NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(${VPLSTRUNK}/${EXTEN:1}) ;Dial

long

distance through VoiP exten => _91NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion ;OOPS! No lines available? : :
[reallongdistance]
include => local
include => longdistance
[local] : exten => _91800NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN}) ; Long

distance
toll free accessed through PSTN trunk interface
exten => _91800NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
exten => _91888NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _91888NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
exten => _91877NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _91877NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
exten => _91866NXXXXXX,1,Dial(${PSTNTRUNK}/${EXTEN})
exten => _91866NXXXXXX,2,Congestion
; The rest of the local definitions, etc
:
I expected that the "_918" definitions would be tested first, followed by the "_91N" definitions. Unfortunately, it appears as if the definitions made using the "include=" operator are always tested last. This means that the toll free numbers dialed by people in the longdistance context are always routed over VoIP rather than PSTN because they match the "_91N" pattern. While I can fix this with a complicated set of conditionals or dial string patterns, I wonder if anyone has found a more elegant solution, remembering that I want to give some extensions access to only the local context, but still
provide
toll free service for everyone (i.e, I don't want to move the "_918"
definitions into the longdistance context).
Stephen R. Besch

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Worked like a charm! Thanks

Stephen R. Besch

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