[Asterisk-Users] Very complicated dialplans?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Zachary Whitley wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 13:02 -0400, Doug Lytle wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Friday 05 August 2005 21:31, Doug Lytle wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/PHONE1,15,rt)
>>>>exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/PHONE4,15,rt)
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>
>>>Using 'r' flags makes baby Jesus cry.  Stop doing that.
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Excuse me?
> 
> 
> r: Generate a ringing tone for the calling party, passing no audio from
> the called channel(s) until one answers. Use with care and don't insert
> this by default into all your dial statements as you are killing call
> progress information for the user. Really, you almost certainly do not
> want to use this. Asterisk will generate ring tones automatically where
> it is appropriate to do so. "r" makes it go the next step and
> additionally generate ring tones where it is probably not appropriate to
> do so.

This needs to be in the info for "show application dial"

--Eric
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Eric Wieling * BTEL Consulting * 504-210-3699 x2120

Only terrorists use the "r" option to Dial.