[Asterisk-Users] How to generate "ringing tone" to a calling party.

[Eric Wieling]

Joseph wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:58 -0700, Joseph wrote:
> 
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Asterisk will ALWAYS indicate ringing if it can.
>>>
>>>The "r" option to Dial, Playtones, and Ringing are all hacks/workarounds 
>>>for when Asterisk cannot indicate ringing to the calling party.  You 
>>>should diagnose and fix the real problem, rather than try hiding the issue.
>>
>>How do you put in a context? I've scaned few configuration files but I
>>didn't see any "r" (or I haven't noticed).
> 
> 
> I got it:
> Dial(channel, timeout, r)
> 

If the destination is busy you may still hear ringing.