asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Context restrictions

Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here?  I only want the
extensions listed in long-users to be able to access the longdistance
context.

If I do this, I get a congestion tone no matter what I dial.  If I add a
[default] context and include => longdistance, then the local callers
can call the long distance number fine, which is not what I want, but I
still want long-users to be able to call locally and I need long and
local users to be able to call each other, and inbound calls need to be
able to go to local and long users as well.

I tried reading the handbook, but even though they say that you can
restrict based on context, it never shows an example of how.

[local-users]
exten => 8478414198,1,Dial(SIP/8478414198)
exten => 8478414198,2,Hangup

[long-users]
exten => 8478414199,1,Dial(SIP/8478414199)
exten => 8478414199,2,Hangup

[local]
exten => _XXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
exten => _XXXXXX,2,Congestion

include => local-users

[long-distance]

exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion

include => local
include => long-users

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dolloff [mailto:sdolloff@noc.dls.net] 
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:13 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Context restrictions
> 
> 
> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here?  I 
> only want the
> extensions listed in long-users to be able to access the longdistance
> context.
> 
> If I do this, I get a congestion tone no matter what I dial.  
> If I add a
> [default] context and include => longdistance, then the local callers
> can call the long distance number fine, which is not what I 
> want, but I
> still want long-users to be able to call locally and I need long and
> local users to be able to call each other, and inbound calls 
> need to be
> able to go to local and long users as well.
> 
> I tried reading the handbook, but even though they say that you can
> restrict based on context, it never shows an example of how.
> 
> [local-users]
> exten => 8478414198,1,Dial(SIP/8478414198)
> exten => 8478414198,2,Hangup
> 
> [long-users]
> exten => 8478414199,1,Dial(SIP/8478414199)
> exten => 8478414199,2,Hangup
> 
> [local]
> exten => _XXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
> exten => _XXXXXX,2,Congestion
> 
> include => local-users
> 
> [long-distance]
> 
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> 
> include => local
> include => long-users
> 
I believe you need to go the other way--include the pattern match for the
local trunk into [local-users] and the match for long distance into
[long-users].  I'm assuming the extensions "start out" in the
[local-users]
or [long-distance] context based on zapata.conf, sip.conf, etc.

Hope this helps...

Randy Johnson
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That's not how it works.  You specify the context of an extension in
zapata.conf, sip.conf, or whatever other channel.confs you use.  The
context you specify there is for calls coming into the Asterisk server
from that channel or device.  See my .sig for a URL for some simplified
example configs that may be easier to understand the the default ones
the come with Asterisk.

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:12, Steve Dolloff wrote:
> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here?  I only want the
> extensions listed in long-users to be able to access the longdistance
> context.
-- 
Sample configs, scripts, more : http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/

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> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here?  I only want the
> extensions listed in long-users to be able to access the longdistance
> context.
> 
[local-users]
> exten => 8478414198,1,Dial(SIP/8478414198)
> exten => 8478414198,2,Hangup
> 
> [long-users]
> exten => 8478414199,1,Dial(SIP/8478414199)
> exten => 8478414199,2,Hangup
> 
> [local]
> exten => _XXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
> exten => _XXXXXX,2,Congestion
> 
> include => local-users
> 
> [long-distance]
> 
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
> exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion
> 
> include => local
> include => long-users
> 
Just went thru this myself......
try it this way.....

[extensions]
exten => 8478414198,1,Dial(SIP/8478414198)
exten => 8478414198,2,Hangup
exten => 8478414199,1,Dial(SIP/8478414199)
exten => 8478414199,2,Hangup

[local]
exten => _XXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
exten => _XXXXXX,2,Congestion

[long-distance]
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@VGW)
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion

[local-users]
exten => 8478414198,1,Dial(SIP/8478414198)
exten => 8478414198,2,Hangup
include => local
include => extensions

[long-users]
exten => 8478414199,1,Dial(SIP/8478414199)
exten => 8478414199,2,Hangup
include => local
include => long-distance
include => extensions


I've dug around and there is really some very
creative extension.conf files out there, wish
there was some single place we could collect them
so we could look at more examples.

Hiya!
> Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here?  I only want the
> extensions listed in long-users to be able to access the longdistance
> context.
Connect to this (I have also been hit several times by nasty context 
business): Is there anyway to get debug info about a current user's 
(channel's) context, maybe like "show channel context" or
"sip show
context"? Any other methods for context (access right) debugging?
For example It took me a while to understand what IAX forwarding does to 
contexts, first I thought that a SIP user transported through IAX would 
also need a "login" (registration) on the receiving * ...

One more question: What are agents, and what are they good for? Help and 
Wiki don't reveal much... I am starting to think we'd really need to get
an overview of the * features and have that documented (without all the 
details, just to get the big picture which makes a start a lot (!) 
easier).

Cheers, Philipp