Runaway calls

General Help
1

Latest distro, asterisk 11.

I have this issue where someone/thing dials a number here, and it leaves a long, like 50 minutes “message”. When you listen to the voicemail, it is a fax machine.

I have tried to prevent this by detecting faxes on inbound routes, and then terminating the call, however, it did not help.

I also added SIP settings as follows, but did not help either:

faxdetect=yes
session-timers=originate
session-expires=1200
session-minse=300
session-refresher=uas

So, I also blacklisted the offending numbers, but more keep ‘popping up’.

Any idea how I can prevent these runaway calls? Thanks in advance.

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stumbled on this thought…why not limit voice-mail length, and found this, so added it.

Go to Voicemail Admin, click on Settings, enter a value in maxsecs (max number of seconds to record a message) then click Submit.