[asterisk-dev] i extension does not match on initial context - bug or not?

[Klaus Darilion]

Hi!

I just stumbled about an already known problem:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+i+extension

The i extension does not match in the initial context, e.g:

context fromSipPhone {
         11 => {
                 Answer();
                 Wait(20);
         }
         i => {
                 Playback(pbx-invalid);
         }
}

In this example, if the SIP phone dials 22, the i extension is not executed.

But in this example:

context fromSipPhone {
         _X. => goto fromSipPhoneWorkaround |${EXTEN}|1;
}

context fromSipPhoneWorkaround {
         11 => {
                 Answer();
                 Wait(20);
         }
         i => {
                 Playback(pbx-invalid);
         }
}

Here, if the SIP phone dials 22, the i extension is executed.

IMO this is inconsistent behavior - and I would consider this a bug.

Thus - should I open a bug report or is there a certain reason for the 
strange behavior?

thanks
klaus