Dialplan Contexts
The "public" dialplan context contains extensions that can be safely reached by calls that are incoming from the wild external world and by non authenticated users. Those extensions do not give access to costly services (eg, outbound calls) or to exploitable features.
The "public" context is the one servicing inbound calls from DID numbers, sent to us by ITSPs. Also, this same "public" context is servicing whatever call comes from non-authenticated users.
It has very few features and extensions, just enough to connect an inbound call to one of our registered internal phones, or to services like voicemail and IVRs. And it usually provides those features and services by "transferring" in an absolute and final way the call ...
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