[asterisk-users] IAX2: Incoming calls answered prematurely?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Alan Lord wrote:
> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>> The remote server is where your problem is.
>>
> 
> Thanks for the reply but I can call the extension in question normally
> and it works fine. The problem is that the IAX trunk appears to be
> answering before it knows if the physical destination is available or
> not. I have read through every option I can find on IAX and elsewhere
> and I can't see how this functionality can be changed or influenced.

How do you know that the far end is not answering and then providing an 
ringing tone.  Asterisk does not magically answer IAX calls.  Playback 
and Background as well as other apps will answer the line unless told 
not to.