Comments on: Keeping Telemarketers At Bay with Asterisk

By: Martin A.

Martin A. — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:41:25 +0000

This is very informative! Thank you for sharing this information! At least I can make some counter moves with those telemarketers calling me every hour!

Thank you and more power!

By: Mukesh Aggarwal

Mukesh Aggarwal — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:37:32 +0000

is there updated version of blacklist feature ?? It would be great addition to my asterisk 1.2.12.1

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:09:50 +0000

I removed

exten=>s,8,Congestion

and just added

exten => s,8,Wait(1)
exten => s,9,Hangup

to my [custom-blacklisted]

as it just gave a continuous congestion without a hangup. I don’t see much point in using congestion anyway after what you have put them through, but I do want my line back.

By: Gerald Anderson

Gerald Anderson — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:04:52 +0000

in custom-blacklist-last for AAH-2.7 the following line:
exten => s,4,GotoIf($"${number}" = ""?104) ; also if it's blank (caller id blocked)
needs to be changed to: exten => s,4,GotoIf($["${number}" = ""]?104) ; also if it's blank (caller id blocked)
Or at last that's what works for me ; ) (sorry if this msg dupes). G

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:18:46 +0000

For the add and delete, you have exten => s,9,Hangup – I seem to be unable to get this to work with the hangup in there. I’ve removed it, and now it works. I think it was hanging up before it would give me a chance to press "1″ to accept the confirmation (to add or delete the number it just read back tome). I’m using AAH 2.5/Asterisk 1.2.4.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:11:12 +0000

I have posted an update on Jacken's blog showing how I got Asterisk @ home v2.2 to check numbers against the blacklist without using the "lookupblacklist" function. [WM: One of my favorite sites! Thanks. Joel.]

By: Greyhound

Greyhound — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:33:49 +0000

WM, I’m an asterisk user, and not sure which version A@H is based on, but in the current version of asterisk, you can make life a lot easier by using "n" instead of a priority number (except for the first priority in an extension, which must be 1). This is a BIG win when modifying dial plans since you can avoid all that nasty renumbering stuff.

If it works in A@H, I’d highly recommend you point it out and start using it in your examples.

Thanks for all the great work. I’ve pulled a number of very useful things off your site for use in "Big" asterisk.

Cheers,
john

By: Jacken

Jacken — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:49:08 +0000

I changed the delete part of the blacklist function. With this version you need to accept the number to delete.

[custom-blacklist-remove]
exten=s,1,Playback(entr-num-rmv-blklist)
exten=s,2,ResponseTimeout(60)
;exten=s,2,DigitTimeout(5)
exten => s,3,Read(blacknr,then-press-pound)
exten => s,4,SayDigits(${blacknr})
exten => s,5,Playback(if-correct-press)
exten => s,6,Playback(digits/1)
exten => 1,1,DBdel(blacklist/${blacknr})
exten => 1,2,SayDigits($blacklist)
exten => 1,3,Playback(num-was-successfully)
exten => 1,4,Playback(removed)
exten => 1,5,Hangup

Jacken

[WM: Thanks very much. I made the changes you recommended in the body of the article as well.]