Matt wrote: > Have you never run into a situation where you dial +15705551212 for a > number, but also have an extention of 157 or something?
Of course, bu then again, a properly designed dialplan will have more specific entries for internal numbers _XXX which will match 157 but not 15705551212, so if you'd dial 15705551212, asterisk will have to find a less specific entry in your dialplan to match that to. > The 9 is > legacy, yes, but still important, in my opinion, to segregate the > networks. You know that anything starting with a 9 is going to go > outbound, and all of your extentions are then 1xx-8xx. 9anything is > reserved for going to the PSTN. Otherwise, you are either going to have > to have your callers dial 1areacode for everything (and then have your > extentions 2xx-9xx), that is they can't just dial 5551212, which is a > pain, or you are going to have overlap. > > The 9 may be legacy, but it is somewhat important! The 9 is legacy, american and IMNSHO completely obsolete. You can leave it in your dialplan as not to upset those users used to dialing a 9 for an outside line, but apart from that, it has no use anymore. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP Key fingerprint = 6367 DFE9 5CBC 0737 7D16 B3F6 048A 02BF DC93 94EC "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
