[asterisk-users] Monitoring second leg being dialed?

[Gilles]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:54:48 -0500, "Kevin P. Fleming"
<kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>This is true, but you already answered your own question in your 
>original post: since Asterisk cannot know whether the called party 
>(dialing out via an FXO port) has answered or not, it assumes the 
>outgoing call is 'answered' as soon as dialing has been completed. 
>Because of this, the calling channel is bridged to the called channel as 
>soon as dialing has been completed, and the calling party will hear the 
>progress of the outbound call.

Thanks for the confirmation. Too bad Dahdi doesn't provide call
supervision so that Asterisk knows if/when the callee has answered.
I'll experiment and see how it goes.