Why don't you use "ï" in your extensions.conf to catch any invalid dialed number and send it back to the operator.
exten => i,1,Goto(MainMenu,1000,1) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream transfer into outer space > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:14:35PM -0500, I wrote: > > So: now I've got my caller just sitting there, transferred into nowhere. > > Is there a way to pick the caller up? I haven't found a way to do this. > > Sorry to be a nag, but no one answered the original question. Is there a > way to pick up a stranded call??? > > If Asterisk "doesn't do this", what about the idea of creating a new > channel for this purpose? It seems to me it should be feasible, but I > haven't spent any time with the code, so am just speculating off the top > of my head. It could work kind of like picking up a parked call: you'd > have a .conf where you specifiy e.g. an extension that will pick up the > first stranded call. > > It seems to me this issue is pretty important. If you're thinking of > Asterisk competing against a commerical PBX, having a situation where a > call can get stranded with no way to pick it up is a significant flaw. > I've seen PBXs that could be set up so that any call not picked up > after some length of time magically rang back to the operator. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users