[asterisk-users] Refresher course needed!

[Yuan LIU]

>From: "Brad Sumrall" <Brads at ftnco.com>
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:06:13 -0500
>
>Hello everyone
>
>My name is Brad, I am an old Asterisk Vet of the very early days just 
>coming
>back to join the group.
>
>Ok, for starters, I feel like the "monkey with the light bulb" looking at
>extensions.conf and sip.conf.
>
>It has been some time.
>
>A friend ask me to set up a asterisk server that records phone calls.
>
>FC4
>Asterisk 1.4
>And all the latest and greatest
>
>
>Problem number 1
>
>Some good "get back into the grove" literature.
>"I work CLI only", never much for graphics and gui's

Asterisk 1.4 still has CLI.  I don't think many people here use GUI.  
voip-info.org is a good starter.  Another really good restarter?  CLI> help!

>Problem number 2
>
>We have asterisk logged into teliax but cannot see the inbound call come up
>on the CLI
>
>Tethereal says this;
>1660   3.829799 207.174.202.4 -> 66.109.17.92 SIP Status: 100 Trying    (1
>bindings)
>1661   3.831357 207.174.202.4 -> 66.109.17.92 SIP Status: 200 OK    (1
>bindings)
>
>Asterisk says this;
>*CLI>
>
>Nothing, notta!

How did you start Asterisk or remote console?  Have you tried "core set 
verbose 1000000000"? (Just kidding.  Most often I go 3.)  Have you tried 
"sip set debug"?

>My extensions.conf
>(yes, I loaded the samples)
>  [general]
>static=yes
>writeprotect=no
>clearglobalvars=no
>;#include "filename.conf"
>
>[globals]
>CONSOLE=Console/dsp				; Console interface for demo
>IAXINFO=guest					; IAXtel username/password
>TRUNK=Zap/g2					; Trunk interface
>TRUNKMSD=1					; MSD digits to strip
>(usually 1 or 0)
>
>;From here is brads stuff
>exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,1,DIAL(SIP/teliax/${EXTEN},30,tr)
>exten => YOURNUMBER,1,Answer()
>exten => YOURNUMBER,1,DIAL(SIP/user,20)

Getting more confused about what inbound call you did not see after reading 
the sample conf.  Did you put a context title before brads stuff?  What is 
your sip.conf/user.conf if you expect incoming call from SIP?

Ah.  Feels good to teach grandma cook milk:-)

Yuan Liu

>Thanks to all!
>
>Brad