[asterisk-users] Re: How to separate outgoing extens from the contexts from sip.conf?

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Hello Eric.
> 
> I don't fully understand your example.
> 
> I _think_ you have in extensions.conf:
> 
> [incoming]
> include => extensions
> 
> [extensions]
> exten => 667
> more exten here
> 
> [toll-trunks]
> exten => 91NXXNXXXXXX
> more exten here
> 
> [toll-access]
> include => extensions
> include => toll-trunks
> 
> My understanding of 'include' is it's as if the 'include'
> were typed line by line into the context.
> 
> Since both extensions and toll-trunks are mixed together in 
> [toll-access], doesn't that give anyone who gains access to extensions
> in [incoming] also access to toll-trunks?  How does anyone on the inside 
> gain access to [toll-access]?
> 
> Also I don't understand the 'doubling' of [extensions] by including it
> in another context.
> 
> I'm probably missing something here.  Can you help me understand this 
> better?

No.  Any device in the [incoming] context will only have access to 
anything in the [incoming] and [extensions] context.  i.e. it will not 
have access to any exten => lines that allow dialing out of the system. 
  include => is only "one-way"