[Asterisk-Users] Wait for X rings before answering?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

This information is outdated or wrong for some versions of Asterisk.  Be 
smart, read the output of "show application dial" in the asterisk server 
you are using and see what it tells you.

Time Bandit wrote:
>>> I have been looking at the reference manual on asteriskguru.com.  They
>>> say it's a timeout but they don't indicate the units.  Is it
>>> milliseconds, microseconds or seconds?
> Just for the lazy one, here is the link to the DIAL command
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+dial
> 
> and extracted from it about the timeout
> The timeout parameter is optional. If not specifed, the Dial command
> will wait indefinitely, exiting only when the originating channel
> hangs up, or all the dialed channels return a busy or error condition.
> Otherwise it specifies a maximum time, in seconds, that the Dial
> command is to wait for a channel to answer.
> 
>> (Critch where are you?)
> Yes !  I'm missing the great answers to people that don't bother
> reading the f****n manual.
> 
> Critch, we are really missing you, please come back ! :)
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