asterisk users - May 2007 - Outbound call through a Single Asterisk Server

I have two asterisk servers.  One is at location 1 and the other is at 
location 2. 
What I am trying to do seems straightforward.  I want the Asterisk 
server at location 2 to
send all it outbound calls to the Asterisk Server at location 1.

Both asterisk servers can dial each other using extensions without a 
problem, but when
users on Asterisk server 2, dial 9XXX-XXX-XXXX the call never reaches 
the zap channel
on Asterisk server 1.

I have a workaround working right now using switch => but I think there 
should be a better
way to do this.

Asterisk Server 2 -- extensions.conf
[outbound]
exten => _9XXXXXXXXXXX,1,       Dial(SIP/outbound-server/${EXTEN:1},30,r)
exten => _9XXXXXXXXXXX,2,       HangUp()

Asterisk Server 2 -- sip.conf
[outbound-server]
        type=friend
        username=outbound-server
        secret=********
        context = all-calls
        host=1.1.1.1
        nat=no
        canreinvite=no
        insecure=very
        qualify=yes
        disallow=all
        allow=ulaw
        allow=alaw
        allow=gsm

any help is accepted and appreciated.

I've got essentially the same thing working fine using IAX2 over openvpn 
instead of SIP.  I'm not the best at debugging asterisk problems but if
the SIP connection is working fine otherwise then I would suspect the
connection is getting there and having problems because it's ending up
in a context that doesn't know what to do with it.



> Asterisk Server 2 -- extensions.conf
> [outbound]
> exten => _9XXXXXXXXXXX,1,      
Dial(SIP/outbound-server/${EXTEN:1},30,r)
> exten => _9XXXXXXXXXXX,2,       HangUp()
>
> Asterisk Server 2 -- sip.conf
> [outbound-server]
>         type=friend
>         username=outbound-server
>         secret=********
>         context = all-calls
>         host=1.1.1.1
>         nat=no
>         canreinvite=no
>         insecure=very
>         qualify=yes
>         disallow=all
>         allow=ulaw
>         allow=alaw
>         allow=gsm
>
> any help is accepted and appreciated.
>
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