DID number is the number commonly assigned to a PSTN trunk. DNIS and DID may be the same. DNIS refers to the "Dialed Number" that is passed as signaling with the call (or on ss7). Most calls have ANI and DNIS.
Your extensions look ok, assuming that the carrier sends the digits that match. What Asterisk "looks for" is determined by how you have signaling setup in your config for the card(s) that you have installed. So, this must match the signaling on the carrier side. James Taylor MetroTel 3505 Summerhill Road Suite 11 Texarkana, Tx 75503 903-793-1956 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Millican Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] DNIS and DID seeking confirmation Hello all, After much googling I have come to the conclusion that in asterisk land DID(Direct Inward Dial) and DNIS(Dialed Number Identification Service) are used rather interchangeably. If this is an incorrect assumption Please correct me. Based on this assumption if I have everthing set up to land in the [incoming] context and an 800# such as 1-800-123-4567 with 4 digit DNIS I can have an entry in my incoming context exten => _4567, 1, do something this is where the call to my 800 number will land regardless of which trunk the call comes in on. Like wise if I have a DID number 456-7891 with an exten=> _7891,1,do something else this will also work. Is this correct or am I way off base? Also what is Asterisk looking for as far as a delimiter or is that in a config file? Something like Seize (Wink) DNIS (Wink) ANI (Wink) Answer or Seize (*) DNIS (*) ANI (*) Answer John M _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
