asterisk users - Mar 2010 - permit/deny in sip.conf iax.conf

Does anyone know the rationale behind why deny/permit values can not be 
specified in 'general' setting of sip.conf & iax.conf

In other words, if I want to deny everyone, then allow selectively permit 
specific hosts or subnets, I can't do so without first deny'ing all in
EVERY
user/peer definition.  Too verbose.

Naturally I can accomplish this using templates, but it DOES seem a bit odd 
since [general] is in essence ALREADY a 'template' of sorts for all 
parameters not otherwise specified.

Is there an architectural reason for this or do I misunderstand a concept 
somewhere?

-K

Karl Fife wrote:
> Naturally I can accomplish this using templates, but it DOES seem a bit odd
> since [general] is in essence ALREADY a 'template' of sorts for all
> parameters not otherwise specified.
You should use templates; the [general] section never should been an
implicit template, but it has been that way forever so we can't change
it. The [general] section *should* have only been for settings that
apply to the SIP channel driver as a whole, and *not* for providing
defaults to entities configured for the driver. Unfortunately, it has
both purposes.

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