Re: [asterisk-users] Is Enum safe from spammers?

2009-07-15 Thread Olivier
2009/7/14 Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.netgordon%2baster...@drogon.net Just been contacted by a UK Enum registrar looking for ITSPs to become resellers of their Enum registration systems ... Is anyone using Enum? Does anyone (other than cynical old me) think that Enum is a

[asterisk-users] How to ask questions the smart way

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Balashov
Inspired by AG Projects' Adrian Georgescu's post of Eric S. Raymond's classic How to Ask Questions the Smart Way to the OpenSIPS-users mailing list[1], I'm going to repost it here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html As Adrian said, This a good read for those who show up on

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Balashov
Yes, provided they are inclined to look at your issue. Do not be presumptuous or self-entitled. Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: It should be an easy one for many of the experts here. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria zisha...@gmail.com mailto:zisha...@gmail.com wrote: For a

Re: [asterisk-users] Lagged Extension

2009-07-15 Thread Ishfaq Malik
Oh, I forgot to mention, the customer can make outbound calls from this extension. Just calls cannot be routed back even though the IP Address and port are in the realtime cache. Ishfaq Malik wrote: Hi There I have an extension which is in a different country and is constantly lagged

Re: [asterisk-users] Lagged Extension

2009-07-15 Thread Rob Hillis
800ms is horrendous lag for a VoIP connection. If I were you, I'd be investing some time in finding out why the lag is so great. Even if I do a ping to a UK address, I'm getting pings of no more than 300ms from Australia. Unless you've got multiple satellite connections in the path (in which

Re: [asterisk-users] Lagged Extension

2009-07-15 Thread Ishfaq Malik
Cheers Rob, I was thinking it was due to a low bandwidth connection at the other end but from what you're saying it sounds like this is not the case. Rob Hillis wrote: 800ms is horrendous lag for a VoIP connection. If I were you, I'd be investing some time in finding out why the lag is so

[asterisk-users] Howto change CDR record on calling channel from called thread?

2009-07-15 Thread Russell Brown
I'm tearing (what's left of) my hair out on this one :-( shortform How can I set the CDR(userfield) in the calling thread from the dialplan (actually a macro called from a feature) in the called thread? long version I use mixmonitor to record calls driven by entries in the asterisk database

Re: [asterisk-users] [asterisk-dev] Question

2009-07-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 02:19:20PM +0300, Gad Alaloof wrote: Hi I'm new developer on Asterisk and i have some questions: I suspect you ended up on the wrong list. Generally this is the list for those who mess with the actual C code of Asterisk. I suggest you follow-up on asterisk-users (CC-ed

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
Alex, no need for personal attacks. Zeeshan On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Alex Balashov abalas...@evaristesys.comwrote: Yes, provided they are inclined to look at your issue. Do not be presumptuous or self-entitled. Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: It should be an easy one for many of the

Re: [asterisk-users] Lagged Extension

2009-07-15 Thread Rob Hillis
Low bandwidth is another possibility, but I'd have though that any connection slow enough to generate that much latency wouldn't be usable for VoIP in the first place. Ishfaq Malik wrote: Cheers Rob, I was thinking it was due to a low bandwidth connection at the other end but from what you're

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
Phillip, thanks for your advise. I tried that, but it didn't help. I'll keep experimenting with it, and will post solution if found one. Zeeshan On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Zeeshan Zakaria zisha...@gmail.com wrote: Alex, no need for personal attacks. Zeeshan On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at

[asterisk-users] Door Phone

2009-07-15 Thread FiNKu
Hi there, I'm new to this list, so sorry if this has already been asked before [hopefully this is the correct list too!]. I'm in the process of building my asterisk system. I've set up a CentOS machine, together with Cisco 7912 phone over SIP. I can make and receive calls from outside over my

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Balashov
It is not a personal attack. It is a statement about the appearance that your manner of formulating your follow-up creates, intentionally or otherwise. Experts do not like being prodded; and take a critical view of rhetorical manipulation techniques designed to appeal to their baser

Re: [asterisk-users] How to ask questions the smart way

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
A useful guide; Sadly many posters won't read any of it. We have all kinds here, but the overall experience can be quite good and useful if you apply patience and principles. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
Understood. Zeeshan On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Alex Balashov abalas...@evaristesys.comwrote: It is not a personal attack. It is a statement about the appearance that your manner of formulating your follow-up creates, intentionally or otherwise. Experts do not like being prodded; and

Re: [asterisk-users] QoS

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
In my shop, we got a better router to support QOS and configured our Polycom phones to always request highest levels (UDP gets 6, everything else gets 3). -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff

[asterisk-users] USB phone with Asterisk under Linux

2009-07-15 Thread Marco Sambo
Hi all, I want to try to use a USB phone with Ekiga under Linux (Debian Lenny). It works: I can receive and make calls. But some buttons of USB phone don't work properly. In particular, button *, #, and hangup have wrong key mapping. Someone have tried a USB phone Thamks all Marco

Re: [asterisk-users] How to ask questions the smart way

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Balashov
As a matter of personal opinion, I think 90% of the useful takeaways for this specific mailing list don't have so much to do with politics and attitude as with asking specific questions of a manageable scope and formulated in an addressable way. Many questions lack conceptual integrity and

Re: [asterisk-users] USB phone with Asterisk under Linux

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
You don't say what Technology you're using to connect the phone to Asterisk or what release of Asterisk you're working with. I know that in 1.4SVN, the * and # are sometimes non-respondent on incoming DAHDI calls (can't use features because can't do *1, #1, etc.). More information would help.

Re: [asterisk-users] QoS

2009-07-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: In my shop, we got a better router to support QOS and configured our Polycom phones to always request highest levels (UDP gets 6, everything else gets 3). Did this apply to your connection to the net, or just internally? I am most concerned with

Re: [asterisk-users] QoS

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
Ours is just internal, but the concept should be the same. My boss could talk on his phone fine until he cranked up Foxnews feed. Once the video started, he couldn't talk on his phone anymore (bad quality or total loss of call). -Original Message- From:

[asterisk-users] Generic question about PBX PRI installs

2009-07-15 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, We we send a server out to a customer with a PRI card I basically tell the PBX person that we want national, NI2, b8zs, D channel is on 24, and we are the CPE and your the NET and us a cross over cable. Allow extensions, local calls and long distance. on the surface I would have thought

[asterisk-users] ResetCDR after GotoIf doesn't set dst correctly, Is this a bug?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
(Both on Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4) I was struggling to find out why my CDR was recording dst = h after a call hangup. It was working fine until I added a GotoIf statement before ResetCDR to calculate some value for userfield column. Today I tested and found out that if ResetCDR is put after GotoIf

Re: [asterisk-users] QoS

2009-07-15 Thread John Novack
Danny Nicholas wrote: Ours is just internal, but the concept should be the same. My boss could talk on his phone fine until he cranked up Foxnews feed. Therein lies the problem One should NOT contaminate their network with Fixed News ( AKA as Fox Noise ) In addition to overloading internal

Re: [asterisk-users] USB phone with Asterisk under Linux

2009-07-15 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Marco Sambo wrote: Hi all, I want to try to use a USB phone with Ekiga under Linux (Debian Lenny). It works: I can receive and make calls. But some buttons of USB phone don't work properly. In particular, button *, #, and hangup have wrong key mapping. Someone have

Re: [asterisk-users] USB phone with Asterisk under Linux

2009-07-15 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote: You don't say what Technology you're using to connect the phone to Asterisk or what release of Asterisk you're working with. I know that in 1.4SVN, the * and # are sometimes non-respondent on incoming DAHDI calls (can't use features because can't do

Re: [asterisk-users] ResetCDR after GotoIf doesn't set dst correctly, Is this a bug?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
I've found a work around, i.e. if put the dialout command in a separate macro, then CDR records the values fine, whether the hangup macro is called by the original context, or by the dialing macro. Posting here in case somebody facing a similar issue like me can benefit from it: [test] exten =

[asterisk-users] Phantom CallerID on transfers

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
Hi Gang, Running Asterisk 1.4SVN using Polycom 501 phones. Just enabled CallerID and for the most part it works as good as you'd expect anything to from the phone company to. Except: on about 1 out of 10 transfers, instead of getting a callerid of joe cool 100 or abc company

Re: [asterisk-users] ResetCDR after GotoIf doesn't set dst correctly, Is this a bug?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
To do the same in AEL, use 'catch' construct (ref https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14956). This is so that we can catch extension h and return to the calling macro, so that it can continue its priority after the Dail command. I've tested it and it works. context test { _NXXNXX = {

Re: [asterisk-users] Phantom CallerID on transfers

2009-07-15 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Nicholas wrote: Hi Gang, Running Asterisk 1.4SVN using Polycom 501 phones. Just enabled CallerID and for the most part it works as good as you’d expect anything to from the phone company to. Except: on about 1 out of 10

Re: [asterisk-users] Phantom CallerID on transfers

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
That's the bizarre thing; I get the ID from telco and whether it passes on to the extension depends on how the transfer is done. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Barry L. Kline Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [asterisk-users] QoS

2009-07-15 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:10 -0500, Danny Nicholas wrote: In my shop, we got a better router to support QOS and configured our Polycom phones to always request highest levels (UDP gets 6, everything else gets 3). -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Generic question about PBX PRI installs

2009-07-15 Thread David Backeberg
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jerry Geisge...@pagestation.com wrote: Anyway as example. the last customer I told the above information. He set up the PBX and I can make 4 digit calls successfully, 7 digit and long distance are not successful. I don't know what's going wrong, but the

Re: [asterisk-users] Phantom CallerID on transfers

2009-07-15 Thread Vinícius Fontes
That's not bizarre at all. Blind transfers will always forward the other end's CID. Attended transfers will always forward the CID of the phone doing it. Vinícius Fontes www.asteriskforum.com.br - Informações e discussão sobre Asterisk e telefonia IP - Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread David Backeberg
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Zeeshan Zakariazisha...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea why is this happening and how can I have correct 'dst' value if the caller hangs up first. [dialout]         exten = _NXXNXX,s,1,Dial(SIP/XX/${EXTEN},30) What happens when you put a exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] Phantom CallerID on transfers

2009-07-15 Thread Danny Nicholas
Beg to differ. Call comes in from telco as 201212. If I do a blind transfer, phone shows asterisk. If I do attended transfer, ID shows as 201212. I'm not saying that’s how it's supposed to work, just how it does in my shop. -Original Message- From:

Re: [asterisk-users] Why CDR is recording dst value = h?

2009-07-15 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
David, to answer your question, if I put NoOp(${CDR(... in the same context, it shows the correct destination. Dealing with CDR values have been a pain, and I know this because I've made two billing systems in last two years. For AGI, there is DeadAGI, which helps, but this current scenario was

[asterisk-users] Read/Write Codec formats

2009-07-15 Thread Elliot Murdock
Hello! I set my devices to only use g77a, but I am getting this when I run show channel NativeFormats: 0x8 (alaw) WriteFormat: 0x8 (alaw) ReadFormat: 0x4 (ulaw) Why is ulaw (g711u) showing up for the Read Format? Thanks, Elliot ___ --

[asterisk-users] Queue wrapuptime as Global option

2009-07-15 Thread Darrin Henshaw
Hello, The call center I manage previously had almost all calls entering a single queue. In order to differentiate the calls to the techs we set the callerid name based on the caller id number offered to us. Basically, it was a gosubif the callerid number matches this, and in the sub we set the

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 WiFi Phones

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Graves
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:58:14 + (UTC), Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Jeff, yeah i saw the posts, i followed Bob Pierce config and had no luck, BUT it just started to work, i changed AP's, seems like theres something wrong with Ubiquiti NanoStation2 WMM implementation, i used a Linksys WRT54G2

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Segmentation Faults Using Skinny (v1.6.0.10) - Solved.

2009-07-15 Thread Wayne
Hi all, Just a quickie to say that this has been solved now - real simple - downloaded '*current*' rather than the versions from the home page of Astrisk.org. (didn't realise there was a 'current' version tbh. Anyways - I don't get Asterisk seg faulting now when hammering the speaker button on

[asterisk-users] DEVICE_STATE() and Asterisk 1.6.0.10

2009-07-15 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I must be missing something here but I can't figure out why I can't get DEVICE_STATE() to give me anything other than NOT_INUSE. I have two extensions: and 6668. I used 6668 to make a call to yet another phone, so I know that it's busy. I

Re: [asterisk-users] DEVICE_STATE() and Asterisk 1.6.0.10

2009-07-15 Thread Mark Michelson
Barry L. Kline wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I must be missing something here but I can't figure out why I can't get DEVICE_STATE() to give me anything other than NOT_INUSE. I have two extensions: and 6668. I used 6668 to make a call to yet another phone, so

Re: [asterisk-users] DEVICE_STATE() and Asterisk 1.6.0.10

2009-07-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Barry L. Kline schrieb: I must be missing something here but I can't figure out why I can't get DEVICE_STATE() to give me anything other than NOT_INUSE. I have two extensions: and 6668. I used 6668 to make a call to yet another phone, so I know that it's busy. I then use to call

Re: [asterisk-users] What is the best way to share extension state

2009-07-15 Thread asterisk-users
Thank you all for your input into this question. It is very helpful to get your opinion and experience with this matter. I mean in my case a single server application. And what I'm probably going to have to do is use AMI via either a windows .net application that will parse and monitor the ami

[asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Gondar Monn
I am having trouble with a DID on a PRI. If there is a call to that DID (let say 5551234) , the next calls get a busy signal. How to I go about sending the call to the next available channel ? Thanks! G. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] Iphone setup

2009-07-15 Thread James Noble
I would like to setup an iphone to be an extension on my pbx. I have looked at SIAX as well as Asteriskc2d. Does anyone have any experience with either of these or another app? The important thing for me is that I can run it in the background so I can always be available to receive a call. It

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Brent Davidson
Gondar Monn wrote: I am having trouble with a DID on a PRI. If there is a call to that DID (let say 5551234) , the next calls get a busy signal. How to I go about sending the call to the next available channel ? Thanks! G. If the telco is providing the PRI then you need to tell

Re: [asterisk-users] Iphone setup

2009-07-15 Thread David Wathen
As far as I know this can't be done. I have configured my iphone 2G, using WeePhone, as an extension on my Trixbox. However, the WeePhone does not run in the background. Apple has a pretty strong block on doing this with any app. David _ From:

Re: [asterisk-users] DEVICE_STATE() and Asterisk 1.6.0.10

2009-07-15 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Michelson wrote: You need to set a call-limit for the SIP peer. Device state calculation for a SIP peer is predicated on both the call-limit and busylevel. Let's say that you were to have a call-limit of 2, but no busylevel set. These

Re: [asterisk-users] DEVICE_STATE() and Asterisk 1.6.0.10

2009-07-15 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Kempgen wrote: Just to be sure: Do you have hints configured for the extensions? See http://das-asterisk-buch.de/2.1/blf-leds.html (The text is in german but there are many examples in extensions.conf and extensions.ael syntax. Zurück =

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Don Kelly
Rollover or hunting is generally the default on PRIs. It sounds like Gondar's concern is with a specific DID number (Do multiple calls to other DID numbers work OK?). I'd wonder about a couple things: Are people dialing '5551234' directly, or are calls being forwarded to that number? Some

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Gondar Monn
Thank you for your quick answers! @ Brent: rollover is on, I would like to any calls that come on 5551234 to another DID, to be able to receive several calls on the same number @ Don: You are right, I am talking about a specific DID: We have an analog line with busy forward setup @ the telco to

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Steve Totaro
Forwarding a POTS line will not work, it is like a trunk to trunk transfer so it is not free, so the line stays busy. You need to port that number over to the PRI provider. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Gondar Monn gonda...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your quick answers! @ Brent:

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread Don Kelly
It's quite possible that your busy forward will only forward one call at a time. What happens if you dial multiple calls directly to 555-2345? If that works, the problem is not with your PRI and Asterisk, the problem is with the forwarding from 555-1234. --Don _ From:

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI hunt group

2009-07-15 Thread John Novack
Steve Totaro wrote: Forwarding a POTS line will not work, it is like a trunk to trunk transfer so it is not free, so the line stays busy. You need to port that number over to the PRI provider. That all depends on the POTS provider. Multiple calls from one POTS number CAN be done, but

Re: [asterisk-users] Iphone setup

2009-07-15 Thread Jimmy Godbout
There's an application called Voipover3G. You have to jailbreak your iphone first. Also, there's backgrounder. Jimmy -Original Message- From: da...@slopecolorado.com Sent: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:36:54 -0600 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Iphone setup

Re: [asterisk-users] How to ask questions the smart way

2009-07-15 Thread Paul Hales
Always a great readthanks. PaulH Alex Balashov wrote: Inspired by AG Projects' Adrian Georgescu's post of Eric S. Raymond's classic How to Ask Questions the Smart Way to the OpenSIPS-users mailing list[1], I'm going to repost it here:

Re: [asterisk-users] How to ask questions the smart way

2009-07-15 Thread Steve Edwards
Un-top-posting... [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:19 AM Inspired by AG Projects' Adrian Georgescu's post of Eric S. Raymond's classic How to Ask Questions the Smart Way to the OpenSIPS-users mailing list[1], I'm

[asterisk-users] advices on how to debridge/rebridge a call?

2009-07-15 Thread Sebastian Maz
Hello, this is what I'm trying to accomplish: - receiving an inbound call from A - dialing another number (B) - bridge A and B - every x minutes, debridge A and B, and bridge A with C (SIP call to an platform that is gonna play an ad) - rebridge A and B Any advice on how to do this?