asterisk users - Aug 2007 - Use of context=... in [default] section of sip.conf

Hi,

If I have [myprovider] section with context=something. When I do an
outgoing call by using Dial(SIP/myprovider/464646)", does context=...
affect anything? As I understand it, it only affects incoming calls, but
I might be wrong.

Another thing, the setting of context=... on [default] section will
affect all [provider] sections without context=..., right? What if I
don't specify any context on [default], what would be the default
context? What if there's no context or an invalid context on a section,
what would happen to incoming calls that match that section?

If I want to receive calls on the URI sip:mynumber at myhost.dyndns.org
from anywhere on the net, I should set context=... on [default] section,
right? That's it, or would I also need to set something like
autocreatepeer? I read it's insecure to set it, but I wonder if there's
another way to do it...

Thanks,
Filipe

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:18 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger
wrote:
> If I have [myprovider] section with context=something. When I do an
> outgoing call by using Dial(SIP/myprovider/464646)", does context=...
> affect anything? As I understand it, it only affects incoming calls, but
> I might be wrong.
That's correct.  The context is only there to tell Asterisk where in the
dialplan to send *incoming* calls.
> Another thing, the setting of context=... on [default] section will
> affect all [provider] sections without context=..., right? What if I
> don't specify any context on [default], what would be the default
> context? 
My guess would be the [default] context, but I could be wrong.
> What if there's no context or an invalid context on a section,
> what would happen to incoming calls that match that section?
The calls would most likely be rejected by Asterisk.



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