SOLVED Spam Phone blocker and CNAM caching

[Eliad]

I am very annoyed by the incessant Spam calls to my home phone. I ported my phone number to an IncrediblePBX last script on Centos 6.
I followed the instructions from http://nerdvittles.com/?p=27313.
The caller gets the prompt to press 5. But then same caller on subsequent calls still has to press 5. The caller phone number does not make it into the Phonebook either.

It would be nice if I can make it work as intended. Any ideas what I did wrong?

Asterisk CLI shows

Connected to Asterisk 13.22.0 currently running on pbx (pid = 2452)
[2019-04-28 18:30:30] ERROR[2551][C-0000000c]: netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("pbx.localdomain", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
[2019-04-28 18:30:30] WARNING[2551][C-0000000c]: acl.c:835 resolve_first: Unable to lookup 'pbx.localdomain'
[2019-04-28 18:30:49] ERROR[2551][C-0000000d]: netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("pbx.localdomain", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
[2019-04-28 18:30:49] WARNING[2551][C-0000000d]: acl.c:835 resolve_first: Unable to lookup 'pbx.localdomain'
[2019-04-28 18:30:57] WARNING[1025][C-0000000d]: ast_expr2.fl:470 ast_yyerror: ast_yyerror(): syntax error: syntax error, unexpected '+', expecting $end; Input:
+1406750xxxx> 0
^
[2019-04-28 18:30:57] WARNING[1025][C-0000000d]: ast_expr2.fl:474 ast_yyerror: If you have questions, please refer to https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Channel+Variables
[2019-04-28 18:30:57] ERROR[1025][C-0000000d]: netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("pbx.localdomain", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
[2019-04-28 18:30:57] WARNING[1025][C-0000000d]: acl.c:835 resolve_first: Unable to lookup 'pbx.localdomain'

 

[wardmundy]

Check that CallerID Superfecta is running and that Asterisk Phonebook is at the top of the lookup list.

 

[Eliad]

Check that CallerID Superfecta is running and that Asterisk Phonebook is at the top of the lookup list.

I moved the Asterisk Phonebook to the top (in the article screen shoot it is listed second). Better but not yet able to recognize a prior caller as valid, you still have to press 5 everytime.

 

[wardmundy]

The Asterisk CLI will tell you what is happening.

 

[Eliad]

hmm,
Asterisk CLI shows superfecta working but then fails. I included the last few lines from the CLI.

[2019-04-29 19:54:49] WARNING[22105][C-0000000a]: ast_expr2.fl:470 ast_yyerror: ast_yyerror(): syntax error: syntax error, unexpected '+', expecting $end; Input:
+1406750xxxx > 0
^
[2019-04-29 19:54:49] WARNING[22105][C-0000000a]: ast_expr2.fl:474 ast_yyerror: If you have questions, please refer to https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Channel+Variables
[2019-04-29 19:54:49] ERROR[22105][C-0000000a]: netsock2.c:305 ast_sockaddr_resolve: getaddrinfo("pbx.localdomain", "(null)", ...): Name or service not known
[2019-04-29 19:54:49] WARNING[22105][C-0000000a]: acl.c:835 resolve_first: Unable to lookup 'pbx.localdomain'

 

[wardmundy]

Change your Trunk settings to: context=from-pstn-e164-us

 

[Eliad]

that fixed the problem of not populating the phone book.
I have couple questions.

I do have Skyetel trunks which provide CNAM, I have a TrueCNAM account and OpenCNAM account. I know the superfecta goes top to bottom. What is the proper order for those? My thought is this order: PhoneBook, Asteridex, Trunk, OpenCNAM and TrueCNAM. I am not sure about the last 2.

On TrueCNAM you documented 2 ways to enter credentials. One through the SSH terminal by editing a file, another way is through the TrueCNAM GUI. I guess i should not do both, which one is the correct way?

 

[krzykat]

What is the proper order for those?

I use:

Asterisk Phonebook
Superfecta Cache
OpenCnam
Trunk Provided
Telco Data

 

[Eliad]

where do I place TrueCNAM?

 

[krzykat]

where do I place TrueCNAM?

Where would you like it to have priority? I'd say definitely after Superfecta Cache, but that is up to you from there. You want your higher levels of authority first. A phone book will always trump everything else, and I like for mine to say "Supreme Leader" for example (LOL). Then you use your cache, because you don't want to pay for looking things up if you are on a pay per lookup basis. Then whoever gives you the next most credible piece of data ... I don't use TrueCNAM, but I use the paid version of OpenCNAM, so that's up to you.

 

[Eliad]

Where would you like it to have priority? I'd say definitely after Superfecta Cache, but that is up to you from there. You want your higher levels of authority first. A phone book will always trump everything else, and I like for mine to say "Supreme Leader" for example (LOL). Then you use your cache, because you don't want to pay for looking things up if you are on a pay per lookup basis. Then whoever gives you the next most credible piece of data ... I don't use TrueCNAM, but I use the paid version of OpenCNAM, so that's up to you.

Thanks. I have the paid version of TrueCNAM and OpenCNAM, I will try them one at a time and see which one is better.

My understanding of the article was OpenCNAM provides the CNAM data then, TrueCNAM just checks the data against their database looking for spammers. It was not clear if TrueCNAM is actually getting the CNAM itself. Then Ward instructions placed TrueCNAM before OpenCNAM and that got me confused on my assumptions.

 

[JoeyHolmes]

I heard about the automatic phone blockers done by google several years ago already https://techacute.com/10-productive-business-process-automation-apps/ . May be they are updated now and you are welcome to make sure in every part and process of them?

 

[shdwkeeper]

@wardmundy Does anyone know if this works for Incredible PBX 2020? I don't want to mess anything up if the article above wont work.