[Asterisk-Users] delay on pri dialling when asterisk is spliced between E1-Pri and legacy pbx

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Maik Schmitt wrote:
>>one of our customers which wants a soft transfer between his old pbx to
>>asterisk and sip. the setup is as follows:
>>   telco <---pri---> asterisk <---pri---> legacy pbx
>>everything is fine exept that when dialling from the legacy pbx it takes
>>about 3 seconds before the asterisk start to dial.
>>where does this delay come from?
>>has it to do with 'overlapdial=yes'?
> 
> 
> This is normal behaviour if you use '.' in your extensions.conf. Use '!' 
> instead and Asterisk will start dialing immediately.

But not on Asterisk 1.0.x

--Eric
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