On 6/2/15 1:58 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
I offer a feature to our customers that allows them to configure their DID to respond with "This number is disconnected" message for specific, annoying callers, based on their CallerID.
Some customers send a Busy signal (486 BUSY) for these annoying callers. It seems that some Robocallers will retry numbers that ring busy repeatedly, sometimes annoyingly aggressively.
I'm switching the default to declining the call, which brings me to which SIP response is correct and/or ideal.
486 Busy has the advantage that it usually won't route-advance, ending the churn on the network for that call. Letting the abusers churn and waste their resources retrying forever may not be a bad thing. 200 OK followed by a "Go away" intercept recording[1] would be another option. Let the call supervise and cost the abusers a fraction of a cent without bothering any humans on the receiving end. You don't want to do this if the endpoint is a tollfree number, obviously. [1] Asterisk's "Our phone system has been eaten by monkeys" might be a good choice. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV