Hi there. I might end up being active in this list, so I'll introduce myself. My name is Brian, I'm a complete newbie to telephony systems in general. I'm sorry, I know that can be frustrating, I don't really know the jargon and I don't really understand how things work. The good news is that I am good at figuring things out and I like to fiddle. Let me see if I have my jargon right: I have a DID mapped to AIX with a service provider (DID WorldWide). I have a cable modem at home, and my laptop (where FreeSwitch is) is the DMZ. I haven't touched the FreeSwitch config. When I call my local DID, FreeSwitch answers: freeswitch@bt-macBook.local> 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [NOTICE] mod_iax.c: 1011 mod_iax_runtime() Incoming call connected 17807010953, 7806692738, (null) 256/2097023 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [NOTICE] mod_iax.c:1019 mod_iax_runtime() New Inbound Channel (null)! 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [NOTICE] switch_channel.c:531 switch_channel_set_name() New Channel IAX/17807010953-f30d [14617d63-9bb8-428b-8207-22a90693ae42] 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [INFO] mod_iax.c:399 iax_set_codec() Activate Codec PCMU/8000 20 ms 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [INFO] mod_dialplan_xml.c:223 dialplan_hunt() Processing ->17807010953@default 2008-03-27 16:53:45 [NOTICE] switch_ivr.c:1001 switch_ivr_session_transfer() Transfer IAX/17807010953-f30d to enum[17807010953@default] 2008-03-27 16:53:46 [INFO] switch_core_state_machine.c:113 switch_core_standard_on_ring() No Route, Aborting 2008-03-27 16:53:46 [NOTICE] switch_core_state_machine.c:114 switch_core_standard_on_ring() Hangup IAX/17807010953-f30d [CS_RING] [NO_ROUTE_DESTINATION] 2008-03-27 16:53:46 [NOTICE] switch_core_session.c:748 switch_core_session_thread() Session 1 (IAX/17807010953-f30d) Ended 2008-03-27 16:53:46 [NOTICE] switch_core_session.c:750 switch_core_session_thread() Close Channel IAX/17807010953-f30d [CS_HANGUP] Bus error (core dumped) So, the crash sucks, and doesn't happen every single time. I'm not tooo worried about that, because things are broken above. It looks like the call was answered (and it even knows who called it -- cool). But, it looks like FreeSwitch doesn't know what to do with the call, and so it aborts and hangs up. I think this is expected behavior. I want to use FreeSwitch for a few things, but the first is to build an IVR and Voicemail system. Can someone point me to resources or give me some quick tips on how to start this? There appear to be almost hundreds of config files, and it's all new to me, so I don't really know where to start, which files do what, etc, etc. If someone could help me with minimal instructions on how to play a sound file based on some control-flow code I write, or some way to run a script, or whatever, I'd be very grateful. I'm just really overwhelmed and I don't know how to start. Thanks in advance, very much! PS: If people help me get rolling, I'm happy to update wikis and/or write little tutorials as I go to save this hassle for future... -- Brian Tanner Ph.D Student, University of Alberta brian@tannerpages.com