[asterisk-users] Question on ring count on incoming circuits

[Steve Matzura]

Who controls how many times an incoming call from an external (DID) 
provider will ring before Asterisk picks up the call and handles it 
internally--the provider or Asterisk? If it's the DID provider, I'll 
work on that with them; if it's Asterisk, I didn't find anything 
anywhere that looks like it has anything to do with incoming ring count 
unless you set up a ring-no-answer system. For my purposes, that would 
mean defining a dummy extension that has no hardware attached to it that 
would fail over to my current call handling code after it rings once. Is 
this the proper method for handling this?


You might wonder why I wouldn't want a call to a system that simply 
plays a message and then takes an optional voicemail message to pick up 
immediately. Short answer: Don't ask (groan). It's what the project 
supporter wants, presumably so that the person calling into the system 
will know their call went through and to be ready to hear the outgoing 
message, I don't know, it's a customer request so I feel duty-bound to 
figure it out and implement it.