Neil Cherry wrote:
Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
Neil Cherry wrote:
Does someone explain the 's' extension? In the Wiki it says it's
the catch all extension. In the Asterisk 1.2-rc1 it say it isn't
but doesn't say anything more. Needless to say I'm confused.
When a call comes into Asterisk (PSTN, VoIP, etc) and call has NO
information as to what extension to route to then Asterisk will try
sending the call to extension => s
In practice this only happens if you have a voice T-1 (Not PRI) with
no DIDs, or if you have an analog FXO port.
Wow, thanks guys for the quick response. I'm checking out the
pdf file (previous list message).
Funny thing is I can get Asterisk to use the 's' extension as a
catch all (I use the include => xcontext command). But I needed
to describe it properly for chapter in a book I'm writing. Man
I hope I get this stuff right!
BTW, I'm using SIP extensions to do all my testing. Works great
(when I remember to include the correct contexts ;-)
exten => s is NOT a "catchall" it's more of a "catch nothing" i.e. it
only catches calls that have no destination info. A "catchall" would be
exten => _. but that would catch extensions that are not numbers (like
o, i, t, T, h, etc). A catch all number extensions would be something
like exten => _X.
--Eric
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