[VoIP] Setting CID in *

[John Novack]

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Doug Alderdice wrote:
>   
>> At 07:55 PM 8/18/2007 +0100, Jon Kay wrote:
>>     
>>> Good manners perhaps. But honestly, /who cares/?
>>>       
>> Those of us who have been subjected to abuse of our systems do care.  John N. had the caller(s) that would ring up his lines and let them ring for hours, I've had several instances of people ringing live answer lines in the middle of the night.  Perhaps John and I are the only ones who like to have a handle on who's poking around in our systems.
>>     
>
> The set of people who would do rude things like that are probably
> the same set of people who wouldn't bother to voluntarily identify
> themselves (which is what CID amounts to), as your experience bears
> out.  A more effective approach would seem to be to block the
> offending IP address(es).
>   
I have also done that to a couple of folks who, it seems, were not 
really within the community.
In addition, I have changed my incoming IAX context from the guest 
sample on the web example configuration page. The example points to a 
series of sound files that warn about blocked numbers ending with a 
soundfile  I call crazylaugh. 666-9969 will get you there if you are 
really curious.
If someone calls using Gregs DNS, then they have a broader access to my 
dialplan, but still need some sort of CLID.
Phil McCarter and Paul Wills have their ANI working from their EM 
switches, and I am probably a year or more away from having that 
working, but LOTS of EM switches had this for billing toll calls, given 
the US had quite a different billing system than the UK and the rest of 
the world.
NO meter pulses for US!
As to my call detail records, I have them all stored in MySQL, and 
review on a regular basis when the spirit moves me.
I also am able to examine just the calls today, thanks to a php script 
put together by Kirt Stanfield.

John Novack

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