If I had to make a wild guess, I'd expect that when you make a call off-campus you must dial an access code first.
Looking at columbia.edu, I see that you're expected to dial '93' for a local number. 1+xxxx is a number in the Centrex dial plan for the Morningside campus. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/telecom/tutorial.html#dialing Asterisk is dialing all 10 digits, just as you expected it to. Your dial plan is not prepending the '93,' so the campus pbx/centrex/switch/whatever thinks you're dialing an on-campus number and uses just the first five digits to complete the call. As '917' is a local call, is the '1' required? --Don Don Kelly CT Magic _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arpit Mehta Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [asterisk-users] Call to an arbitrary outbound number by asterisk Hi, I have a strange problem. I have a TE110p digium card. I want to dial 19173995791 when any incoming call comes in. What is happening is that when I dial 19173-995791. Asterisk picks up the first 5 digits assuming it is the extension and appends 212-85 (here in the university most numbers start with this) in front . Therefore I get connected to some random number 212-85-(19173) (where the voicemail is running). I cannot understand why asterisk is doing this whereas my dialplan says it needs to connect to other number "exten => _.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/19173995791)" Also any idea if this is an Asterisk problem or a telco problem. Any help/hints/suggestions would be most welcome Here are my files. zapata.conf context=incoming switchtype=national signalling=pri_cpe group=1 channel=>1-23 extension.conf [incoming] exten => _.,1,Dial(Zap/g1/19173995791) ######### I have added this line in the dialplan is because I want it to match the last 5 digit and simply dial the number 19173995791 such that a call leg is established between the calling party and the number 19173995791 CLI debug information -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH -- Called g1/19173995791 -- Zap/1-1 is proceeding passing it to Zap/23-1 -- Zap/1-1 is making progress passing it to Zap/23-1 ############### The call keeps ringing for sometime then it goes to voicemail. The message comes when the voicemail start. Note that I have not setup any voice mail -- Zap/1-1 answered Zap/23-1 ############### Goes to the voicemail -- Native bridging Zap/23-1 and Zap/1-1 -- Channel 0/23, span 1 got hangup request -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1' == Spawn extension (incoming, 17689, 1) exited non-zero on 'Zap/23-1' -- Hungup 'Zap/23-1' Regards -- Arpit Mehta Graduate Student Department of Computer Science Columbia University Tel: 1-646-387-5998
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