[Asterisk-Dev] 1.2 Feature freeze.

[Steven]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 07:50 +0200, Harald Milz wrote:
> Jerris, Michael MI <mjerris at ofllc.com> wrote:
> 
> > There has been talk of 1.2 for quite some weeks or months now both on
> > the dev list and on the dev conference calls.  If somone has not been
> 
> Please don't omit the externhost feature. It's a must for many people
> running an Asterisk behind a DSL NAT router with a dynamic IP, as it is
> usual in Germany.
> 
> And while we're at it, I still see no official way to determine the called
> number on incoming calls. Example:
> 
> - Sipgate gives you only a single DID number, e.g. 01234-567891
> - if someone dials 01234-567891-12, 01234-567891 will be called but the
>   whole number will be sent in the SIP header including the suffixed -12
>   (a SER feature as it seems). This allows me to route incoming calls
>   directly to a specific extension of my attached ISDN PBX (which in
>   turn is just an 8-way analog adapter if you will) depending on the
>   suffix. It's like an ISDN PtMP setup.
> - I see no official way to see the affixed -12 in an extension. I
>   submitted a patch for CALLEDNUM but there has been little interest so
>   far, although this is a _very_ interesting feature. This patch simply
>   determines the called number from the SIP header and creates a variable
>   CALLEDNUM that can be used in the dial plan.
> 
> It would be very useful to include this feature - or document how that can
> be done the "official" way. The "s" extension doesn't give you access to
> the number that was actually dialed, and if I use an explicit extension in
> the "register" line in sip.conf, only this extension will be available.
> Effectively, you only get a clue _that_ you were called, not _how_
> you were called. I never see the actually called number including the
> suffix. Any idea???

I guess the official way would to do proper matching in the dialplan
such as

exten => 01234-567891,1,do something fo exact match
exten => _01234-567891.,1, or something similar to match base + extra
exten => _01234-567891.,2,set a var to the extra portion with a
substring

-- 
Steven Critchfield
critch at basesys.com
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