[asterisk-users] SIP Context Confusion

[Olle E. Johansson]

Or you could use the domain feature, where you set a default context  
per domain, that overrides the one in the general section.

/Olle

3 apr 2009 kl. 07.08 skrev Martin:

> Hi,
>
> It took me a while to understand what you were saying ... more clarity
> to your emails!
>
> I see where the code says " If we have a context defined, overwrite
> the original context" and after consideration
> I agree with you ... the only problem is that even if you don't define
> the "context=blah" for the user... that user
> inherits the "default" context
>
> However since you did find it in the source code I'm sure you can fix
> it for yourself. Just check against the "default_context"
> and do not overwrite the user's context if it's default.
>
> Or add another flag to the user's definition for example
> is_context_set that would be NULL if no context keyword is processed
> from the sip.conf etc.
> That is easier to check instead of comparing against default_context
>
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Anthony Plack <tony at plack.net> wrote:
>> Okay, I am not understanding if I have this correct or not.
>>
>> I have a requirement to allow guests into a PBX from different  
>> domains.  However, I can not allow the guests into the default  
>> context because each domain has its own IVR.  So I end up setting  
>> the domain context.  I also need to provide separate contexts for  
>> different sip users (different dial groups).  Small system, few  
>> users, so it doesn't make sense to create separate Asterisk boxes  
>> (cost wise and support) and some of the prompts are similar.  Same  
>> company, different micro departments and web domains.  Should need  
>> to either.
>>
>> If I set the user context to "user1" and have set a domain context  
>> set to "guests1" in sip.conf, the system is ignoring the "user1"  
>> context.  An incoming call (from the code) will be force the  
>> context to "guests1" and not have the "user1".  I quote:
>>
>>        /* If we have a context defined, overwrite the original  
>> context */
>>
>> For example, in sip.conf:
>>
>>        [general]
>>        context=fromsip
>>        domain=domain1.tld,guests1
>>        domain=domain2.tld,guests2
>>
>>        [userA]
>>        context=user1
>>
>> It would seem to me, that if the context was NOT set in the SIP  
>> entry, and a domain context was available, only then would you  
>> replace the context.
>>
>> To me, I would go from micro to macro definition and not jump  
>> around.  So we would have peer, domain, general in the SIP context  
>> hierarchy.  Instead we have domain, peer, general.
>>
>> What am I missing about why this is setup this way (other than that  
>> is the way it has always been)?
>>
>> Looking for some instruction here to wrap my head around this better.
>>
>> As stands now, I believe I have to set all the phones up to a  
>> domain without a context to allow the local context to be used.  Is  
>> that correct?
>>
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