[SR-Users] pdb and carrier id zero in finnish LNP

[Henning Westerholt]

On Monday 13 September 2010, Mikko Lehto wrote:
> > Do you refer to the fact that then also the internal logic of the module
> > needs to be changed as well?
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> > Well, the module could be changed, that maybe could also use something
> > like 997 or 998 for the "not found" id could be used.
> 
> Those are part of the reserved range around here, but length is four
> starting from 9900. 0998 could be "not found" and 9900 first four digit 
> carrier.
> 
> That would work for my case, maybe I'll try mapping zero to something else
> with my vintage C skills.

Hello Mikko,

a more general solution would be of course nice.

> > You're right, it should be only in the carrier name file. I'll fix this.
> > Somehow this is used from german regulation authorities, it stands
> > probably for the country name. We could probably change it, patches are
> > welcome. ;-)
> 
> It's OK like that, I'll rather mess with the "not found" case for now.
> 
> Country prefix could actually be useful if one file has carrier names
> from multiple countries.

Indeed, even if i don't think this is at the moment activly used for the 
lookup.
 
> > Great, thank you! I'll add it to the repository, and also fix the german
> > one (some changes in URL)
> 
> Nice, I see you like wget more :)

Ah, sorry. It was just a matter of "its already installed on the test machine" 
as i wanted to give it a try. :-)

Regards,

Henning