[Kamailio-Users] Kamailio -> Asterisk Redirect/Reinvite and Remote-Party-ID

[Florian Meister]

> 1. As Asterisk detects the "spiral" and handles it internally, there is
> nothing you can do in Kamailio.

That's bad. So I have to do the diversion check at two places ... 
 
> 2. Just a warning: In general, Remote-Party-ID is used for CLI
> indication, not for billing purposes. In your setup it might be possibly
> to use RPID for billing to, but it would be better to use the proper
> headers, like the obsolete (as you are using RPID I suspect you like
> obsolete headers ;-) Diversion header, or the History-Info header.
> (another warning: make sure that your system ignores/removes these
> headers when sent by your customers - otherwise they can fool your
> billing system and signal arbitrary CLIs)

Thanks for the info. What are the headers which should be used for CLI, the not obsolete ones ? ;-)

> 3. You can for example easily bypass the problem by making the DB lookup
> also in Asterisk. Use e.g. func_odbc to query your call-forwarding table
> from within Asterisk, set the CDR(whatever) variables to fulfill you
> billing requirements, and then send the call to the PSTN again.

Ok. That's what I have to do. 

Thanks for your help, 

Ciao, Florian