asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Nested/cascading "switch" statements: possible?

I'm lazy and decided that I didn't have the time to hack up a few 
servers for testing, which I'll probably have to do if nobody answers 
this mail, but it's late in this part of the world and I'm tired.  :-)

I'm wondering if the use of the "switch" statement can be nested, 
such that system A has a "switch" statement that points dialplan 
inclusion to server B, and server B has in that context a "switch" 
statement which points to server C.  Therefore, server A knows about 
extensions on server C only indirectly, through server B, though the 
media path of course may actually end up going directly A->C (if it's 
IAX or SIP.)

Google, the Wiki, nor my mail archives had anything that obviously 
matched my search keywords, though I can swear I've seen this 
question on the list before.  It sounds too good to be true, and I 
know what that means...

JT

John,

If I remember correctly, we accidentally did something like this and 
caused an infinite loop between a few of our servers (resulting in an 
IAX "Out of Trunk Space" message), but if Server C doesn't point
back
to Server A, then it should work...

On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:30 AM, John Todd wrote:
>
> I'm lazy and decided that I didn't have the time to hack up a few 
> servers for testing, which I'll probably have to do if nobody answers 
> this mail, but it's late in this part of the world and I'm tired. 
:-)
>
> I'm wondering if the use of the "switch" statement can be
nested, such
> that system A has a "switch" statement that points dialplan
inclusion
> to server B, and server B has in that context a "switch"
statement
> which points to server C.  Therefore, server A knows about extensions 
> on server C only indirectly, through server B, though the media path 
> of course may actually end up going directly A->C (if it's IAX or 
> SIP.)
>
> Google, the Wiki, nor my mail archives had anything that obviously 
> matched my search keywords, though I can swear I've seen this question 
> on the list before.  It sounds too good to be true, and I know what 
> that means...
>
> JT
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