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I've got soft phone that allows me to dial SIP URI's. I'd like to route these calls through a provider to be completed, because I'm beind a NAT box and doing it directly doesn't work. Right now I've got an extension defined like this: Dial(IAX2/${FWDUSERID}:${FWDPASSWD}@${FWDSERVER}/**356<username>) This will connect a call to FWD and call a user at FWD. It works

...'m working on a SIP-only VOIP system. I have two Asterisk servers. One server (A) is behind a (NATing) firewall and the other (B) is in a DMZ. A and B communicate via IAX2. In A's dialplan, when it detects a SIP call (essentially using the rules presented here: http://slacker.com/~nugget/asterisk7.php), instead of trying to make the call itself, I'm trying to use Dial to connect to B via IAX. B would then assign the SIP call to a context that would actually make the call. I'm currently stumped by what seems to be IAX's choking on the "@" character. To maintain the SI...