[asterisk-users] permit/deny in sip.conf iax.conf

[Karl Fife]

Does anyone know the rationale behind why deny/permit values can not be 
specified in 'general' setting of sip.conf & iax.conf

In other words, if I want to deny everyone, then allow selectively permit 
specific hosts or subnets, I can't do so without first deny'ing all in EVERY 
user/peer definition.  Too verbose.

Naturally I can accomplish this using templates, but it DOES seem a bit odd 
since [general] is in essence ALREADY a 'template' of sorts for all 
parameters not otherwise specified.

Is there an architectural reason for this or do I misunderstand a concept 
somewhere?

-K