On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Henry Coleman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> My Asterisk based system is having problems call forwarding from an outside
> trunk (SIP)
>
> internal ext. 200 ----------> internal ext. 201 ---------->Follow me
> ext.201 or VmX  ------------> external PSTN number --------->Works Okay
>
> BUT
>
> External PSTN number --------> IVR (press 2) -----------> internal
> ext.201-----------> Follow me ext. or 201/VmX --------> external PSTN
> number ------> "number cannot be completed....."
>
> The above is true for VmX locator  and for Ring Groups as well
>
> This used to work until recently (about a month ago) . Looking at the log
> file it seems to be a context problem (can send file if anyone can debug)
>

Hi Henry,

What you're trying to do seems reasonable to me.  I'm not aware of
anything obvious that would cause that, but here are some ideas in
case it helps.  I assume you're still running FreePBX.

I'm not sure if you changed anything but the thing I most often
overlook in that circumstance is the '#' at the end of the external
number.  That's the first thing I'd check for but I would think that
your first case would fail if you were missing the '#'.

I haven't used the 'VM Return to IVR' setting in the IVR setup but I
could see how that might misbehave and cause IVR routed calls to be
handled differently than ones that were direct-dialed.  Similarly,
check for the 'Return to IVR' checkbox on menu option 2 in your IVR.

One option, for debugging or interim purposes, could be to create an
extension of type 'custom' and set it's dial string to
'local/9PSTNNUMBER#@from-internal'.  Obviously, you should put the
external number in place of PSTNNUMBER.  Because you're in
from-internal, you have to specify the 9 (or whatever you're using for
trunk selection) before the PSTN number.

Good luck,

Dave

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