Is there a proper way to test whether 999 and 112 is working through an
asterisk system or do you just 'hope', or dial and explain you are
testing a phone system etc??

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"Linker3000" <linker3000@google-mailnohyphen.com> wrote in
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> Is there a proper way to test whether 999 and 112 is
> working through an asterisk system or do you just 'hope',
> or dial and explain you are testing a phone system etc??

Don't *ever* ring and say you are testing, they will not love you at all
for doing that..!

I don't know Asterisk but I would assume if you connect something to the
analogue line connection and listen for the DTMF tones being sent you
should get some idea.

Ivor

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Linker3000 wrote:
> Is there a proper way to test whether 999 and 112 is working through an
> asterisk system or do you just 'hope', or dial and explain you are
> testing a phone system etc??

You should arrange the test call with your provider.  Are you routing
999 calls over a PSTN line?  If so, you might be better off using 150 a
dummy 999 number or something.  Certainly, as someone else has
suggested, dialling 999 and saying, "sorry mate, testing, testing, 123"
== bad.

alex

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