Don't want to dial '9' anymore

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hi all,

I have a dialplan that states you must dial ‘9’ before making any outside calls. I want to change this so that asterisk supports just regular ten-digit dialing. instead of dialing 9-555-555-5555 I want to be able to just dial 555-555-5555. Here is what I currently have to dial to the PSTN…

;extensions.conf:

exten => _9.,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/${EXTEN},,tr)
;sip.conf:

[SWITCH]
type=peer
host=18.7.7.98
trustrpid=yes
context=sip
insecure=very
dtmfmode=auto
;nat=yes
;qualify=yes
2

Get rid of the 9_ and replace with something like this:

_NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/${EXTEN},tr)

3

That’s exactly what I did; however, when I make a call now, it rings and rings and eventually just times out. It never makes it to the PSTN phone.

4

Is the SWITCH expecting the 9? Your original dialplan is not stripping it, so you may need to add the 9 to the new dialplan.

_NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/9${EXTEN},,tr)

5

You are a lifesaver. Ahh If it wasn’t for the little things…

It’s very helpful to know this because we are on a wide school campus that has several different prefixes. This helps to implement a 5-digit campus-wide dialplan.

For example:
617-715-**** = campus
617-253-**** = campus
617-258-**** = campus

So to make it easy for campus calls… I simply implement 5-digit dialing like so:

exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/9${EXTEN},,tr) ;all outbound
exten => _3XXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/961725${EXTEN},,tr) ;617-253
exten => _5XXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/961771${EXTEN},,tr) ;617-715
exten => _8XXXX,1,Dial(SIP/SWITCH/961725${Exten},,tr) ;617-258