[Asterisk-Users] Transparently Routing German pri through Asterisk

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On May 7, 2005 05:16 am, Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote:
> 
>>Watch the console and be amazed when _. matches extension "h", which is
>>called when the far side of the call hangs up.  You get two calls to the
>>same number by only dialing once!  Stop being lazy and at least use _X.
>>as your pattern.
> 
> 
> I'd suggest stopping being even that lazy and making some realistic matching 
> extensions.  I have 
> 
> NXXXXXX for my 7-digit local
> 1NXXNXXXXXX for my 10-digit LD
> 0NXXNXXXXXX for operator-assisted LD
> 011. for international
> 
> I have never understood why people are so goddamned lazy that they can't write 
> out a few exten matches...  but nooooooooooooo they want to over-optimize and 
> use _. or even _X.
> 
> If you want to match phone extensions then match 2XX or 2XXX or whatever your 
> pattern happens to be.  It's almost NEVER necessary to use such broad matches 
> as _. and _X.

In much of the world the PSTN dialplan is not that simple.  Yes, a more 
specific dialplan than my _X. exmaple is a good idea, but the USA has a 
VERY simple PSTN dialplan and is NOT like most of the world.