I’m setting up a simple call screening PBX to sit on our POTS line and cut down on unwanted calls. So far, I’ve enabled Privacy on the trunk to capture withheld CID and all calls go through a simple IVR that requires entry of a single digit to actually ring phones. What would be nice, is to be abl…

I add good caller’s to a whitelist table in the asteriskdb ( sqlite3) just check the caller id against it before sending them anywhere, you can easily add a ‘preferred’ destination to that database. Just like the built in blacklist, the mere existance of whitelist/2125551212 authorises the caller a…

[image] Of Robocalls and Whitelists [The functionality of these scripts is largely superseded by the AllowList Module ] … of cabbages and kings. I have several DIDs published for business purposes, and as time passes, they become incrementally more prone to robocalls. Th…

If you you have a list of unwanted callers you can add them to the FreePBX Blacklist. *32 will block last number. https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FPG/Blacklist+Module+User+Guide

That’s exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks.

Thanks. The challenge is maintaining the list. Also, they change numbers really quickly. That’s why blacklisting is less effective than whitelisting.

Is it possible to have a black (or white) list of inbound callers?

FreePBX Configuration

lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz) April 9, 2020, 1:10pm 3