[Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

[Neil Cherry]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:

>> 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.

Thanks, you just pointed out 2 huge mistakes on my part. The first
is what I thought 's' was for and the second is that my above
statement is untrue. I used the '_.' as the catch all. I'll correct
that. Again thanks!

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