I think then maybe I misunderstood he wanted to block
1<any_three_digits>5551212. I see a lot of people putting in xxx where they
actually mean ***.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:01 -0400, Dale D wrote:
>
> > I want to create a dial rule to block calls of the form
> > 1XXX5551212.  Is this possible?  The dial rule descriptions
> > imply prefix matching, but not interior matching which would
> > allow this to work.
>
> What do you mean by 'block' ?  What do you want to happen to the call?
>
> I just tried to configure a dial rule on our 4.1.7 alpha test system,
> and it accepted it and generated what looked to me like a valid
> configuration (I didn't activate the dial plans and test it because it
> would have disrupted other users).
>
> So... what did I do?
>
> I configured a Custom dial plan:
>
>        Name 'directory redirect'
>        Dialed Number
>          Prefix '1xxx5551212' and 0 digits
>        Resulting Call
>          Dial '1234' and append Nothing
>        Gateways
>          none specified
>
> what that _should_ do is change any call matching that pattern into a
> call to 1234, which would then be re-evaluated according to the full set
> of routing rules (if you don't specify a gateway, then the call is sent
> back to the proxy to be routed further).
>
> I'm pretty sure that would work just fine (and would also work in
> 4.0.4), and I could replace 1234 with, for example, an auto-attendent
> whose prompt says "please dial 411 for directory assistance", or I could
> substitute some other external number - whatever I want as long as the
> Resulting Call won't also match the Dialed Number rule (infinite loop -
> call will fail - be careful).
>
> One thing to note about putting patterns somewhere other than at the end
> of the dial string: if you specify that the Resulting Call should
> 'append "Matched Suffix"', then what will be appended is really the
> digits that begin at the first wildcard match and continue to the end,
> whether the end includes non-wildcard digits or not.  So, in the rule
> above if I changed the Resulting call to be Dial 1234 and append Matched
> Suffix, and then dialed 17775551212, the call would be 12345551212.
>
>
>
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