[asterisk-users] {s} - extension

[Daniel Suleyman]

Thank you all for answers. As I understand s - i and others is device specific.
I will not need them in my SIP configuration.

2008/3/5, Andres Jimenez <gandresin at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
>
> >  This is not needed. If the extension is not found, there is a
> >  fallthrough to 's' (Right? Or is it chan_zap-specific)?
>
> I would say it's chan_zap-specific.
>
> From http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config+extensions.conf
>
> "For some kinds of connections — such incoming calls from an outside
> telephone line — the user has not dialed an extension. In that case,
> Asterisk behaves as if the user had dialed a special extension named
> "s" (for Start). Asterisk will look for an extension "number" s in the
> definition of the context for that channel for instructions about what
> it should do to handle the call. "
>
> The key factor is that "s" is used when NO EXTENSION has been
> specified (when the call is not clearly directed to an specific
> number). As far as I know, that's the way analog lines behave. The
> line just receives the call, but no information says to which number
> the call was sent.
>
>
> --
> Andres Jimenez
>
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