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Dear all,

I quite new to Asterisk and to this forum, can anyone pls help me?
I have been having a small problem when configuring my asterisk for two days now. I have configured two channels: one SIP and the other IAX as follows:

sip.conf
[1000]
type=friend
host=dynamic
context=internal
qualify=yes

iax.conf

[general]
autokill=yes

[zoiper]
type=friend
host=dynamic
context=phones
qualify=yes


extensions.conf
[general]

[internal]
exten => _1xxx,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN},30)
exten => _1xxx,n,Hangup()

[incoming]
exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,n,Playback(hello-world)
exten => s,n,Hangup()

Both clients (SIP and IAX) register with no problem as can be seen below

localhost*CLI> sip show peers
Name/username Host Dyn Nat ACL Port Status
1000/1000 192.168.2.103 D 5084 Unmonitored
1 sip peers [Monitored: 0 online, 0 offline Unmonitored: 1 online, 0 offline]
localhost*CLI> iax2 show pe
peers peer
localhost*CLI> iax2 show peers
Name/Username Host Mask Port Status
zoiper 192.168.2.101 (D) 255.255.255.255 4569 OK (7 ms)
1 iax2 peers [1 online, 0 offline, 0 unmonitored]
localhost*CLI>

However whenever i type the command console dial 1000 i get the error depicted below:
localhost*CLI> console dial 1000
No such extension '1000' in context 'default'

If i create a context called default and insert the code i have right now in internal, it works fine, but if i only have the internal context and point to it from my config in sip.conf it produces the aforementioned error. What could i be doing wrong?