[Asterisk-Users] The Start extension

[eric]

No!  "s" is executed when Asterisk has no destination extension.  For
example when a call comes in from the PSTN Asterisk doesn't know what
extension to send the call to, so it sends it to the "s" extension.

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:23, rnc Info Lists wrote:
> I have my sip phones going into the context [from-sip] and would like to
> play an introduction message and then have the caller enter the extension.
> The message (dir-info was picked just to have something) doesn't play. 
> Maybe I misunderstood the "s" extension.  According to what I read it is
> executed everytime something enters the context.  Obviously something was
> misunderstood.
> 
> The following is in extensions.com:
> [from-sip]
> exten=> s,1,Answer
> exten=> s,2,Background,dir-intro
> exten=> s,3,DigitTimeout,3
> exten=> s,4,ResponseTimeout,10
> 
> exten => 2000,1,Dial(SIP/2000,20)
> exten => 2001,1,Dial(SIP/2000,21)
> 
> 
> Any ideas are appreciated.
> 
> Robert
> 
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