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Title: Anonymous call reject
Post by: del on February 05, 2011, 10:50:12 PM

Is there any facility in SAIL?SARK or Asterisk to reject anonymous calls?

Cheers,
Del

Title: Re: Anonymous call reject
Post by: SARK devs on February 06, 2011, 01:59:59 PM

Hi Del

I may appear a bit dumb here, but please indulge me, what do you mean exactly by an anonymous call?  Do you mean...
 a call without a valid CLID
or...
 a call to a DNID or DiD that doesn't appear in your system?

Best

S

 

Title: Re: Anonymous call reject
Post by: del on February 06, 2011, 05:24:45 PM

Yes I mean a caller that doesn't send it's CLID, when I was in Florida if I called someone using my voipdiscount.com trunk it would show as "anonymous" or "number withheld" and some of the people I called had what AT&T called "Anonymous call reject" where it would say something like "the person you have called does not accept calls from unknown numbers, please redial and send your caller ID" and I wondered if it was something that could be done in SAIL. Also I used to install a small phone system in the UK called Jeeves and if you didn't send a valid CLID it would ask you to record your name and then when you answered the phone it would play it back for you so you could decide whether to speak to them or reject the call, the system seems to have been discontinued and I have never seen anything else like it since.

Regards,
Del

Title: Re: Anonymous call reject
Post by: jester on February 07, 2011, 11:03:45 AM

I think it shouldn't be too hard to make a custom app to do that?! Making use of the Asterisk GotoIf (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+GotoIf) conditional.

Title: Re: Anonymous call reject
Post by: SARK devs on February 07, 2011, 11:49:49 AM

Jester is correct.

There is no specific handling for calls without CLID in sail but you could write a custom app to check and take some action if the cli is absent.

Kind Regrds
 
S

Title: Re: Anonymous call reject
Post by: Teviot on February 10, 2011, 03:02:33 AM

Sorry for jumping in late, but I have been very busy the past few months. I have another suggestion but don't know how to code it into an app.


An option for them to enter their number before the call proceeds.

Maybe both would be a good idea .. Record Name and Enter Number?