[Asterisk-Users] Unblocking incoming SIP

[Brian Cuthie]

Eric Wieling wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:16, Duane wrote:
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>>Andy Powell wrote:
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>>>Anything that's added to * that breaks how protocols work should be by default OFF not ON, 
>>>but that's just IMO...
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>>I agree 100%, this has been very frustrating trying to work out why 
>>Asterisk suddenly stopped accepting calls from FWD and other PSTN based 
>>services.
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>>I very much preferred the old method, if I didn't want to accept a SIP 
>>call you just don't have a matching context.
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>The problem is that too many people had a context= in [general] and
>didn't realize that incoming SIP calls that didn't match anything would
>be accepted and sent to the context= that was specified in [genera].
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Which is because configs/sip.conf.sample has context=default. So let's 
not blame it on the "too many people" problem.

I agree that new features shouldn't break old configs.

-brian