Getting a busy signal with *60

[pinktrees]

Okay, I won't bore you with the personal details, but there's somebody that I really want to block from calling me. I'm on a campus landline network where you have to dial a prefix to make local or long-distance calls (it's 8, and with long-distance calls you have to do the whole "enter your personal billing number" thing so it gets billed to your student account). Some of the star codes work, but with *60 and *69 you just get busy signals. Is there anything I can do, or am I pretty much fucked?

[RijilV]

Okay, I won't bore you with the personal details, but there's somebody that I really want to block from calling me. I'm on a campus landline network where you have to dial a prefix to make local or long-distance calls (it's 8, and with long-distance calls you have to do the whole "enter your personal billing number" thing so it gets billed to your student account). Some of the star codes work, but with *60 and *69 you just get busy signals. Is there anything I can do, or am I pretty much fucked?

Long walk, short pier.

[pinktrees]

But I don't live near the ocean!

[RijilV]

touche...

You're not on a POTS line - but rather some campus wide PBX.  If this system is sending callerID you could in theory plug in an asterisk machine and do some call filtering there..

You'd have to know:
Linux or BSD
Asterisk

and have:
FXO card (though I would urge you to not get a X100P because they sound like crap)
Computer to run Asterisk on

There is a ton of information on voip-info.org for setting up asterisk - what you're trying to do would be pretty simple - just check if the caller is on a black list and if so send them to the bit bucket.

[pinktrees]

All righty, I was able to figure it out. Thanks.

[gangals]

If you are at a university, just contact your IT/Telco helpdesk and they can have their coordinators configure the PBX for your needs.