[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk leaving many UDP ports available.

[John Todd]

>Hi there,
>
>Should asterisk have many, many UDP ports open?
>
>[root at router asterisk]# netstat -nap|grep asterisk|less
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:17920           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:12544           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10240           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:12800           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:17921           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:12545           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:10241           0.0.0.0:*      19773/asterisk
>
>...
>
>[root at router asterisk]# netstat -nap|grep asterisk|wc -l
>     447
>
>I know that the other day I had to recycle asterisk because I was getting
>"too many open files" errors in the log file (and asterisk was dead).
>
>...deon

This may or may not be related to the SIP bug which has been open for 
some time.  You may find more of a description at 
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000055

Or, you may have found something different...

JT