[Asterisk-Users] Extensions.conf error - 'Maximum Include level(10) exceeded'

[Adrian Carter]

I have heaps of includes. The limitation is not to the Extensions.conf
file, but rather each CONTEXT within the Extensions.conf file.

Its fairly logical, and no problem , since if you need more than 9
includes per context, simply use goto's and jump out to other context's
or use AGI first to select a final context and return to the dial plan

So what was the issue again ?

Douglas Garstang wrote:

>Oh Nooooooo!
>
>It looks as if there is a limit of 9 (not 10) maximum #include statments that you can have in extensions.conf. For example, the following extensions.conf causes the error to appear..
>
>[user_3250071]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>
>[user_3250072]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>
>This is 12 #include statements and it causes the error to occur 3 times. If I remove three of the #include statements, the error goes away. This therefore means that is a maximum of 9 #include statements that can be put into extensions.conf. This is a SERIOUS SERIOUS (how many times can I say it?) limitation. I thought Digium said that Asterisk was supposed to be enterprise-grade? What happens when you say, oh I don't know, have LESS than 1 customer, with several dozen accounts and you need to provide fine tuned granularity to allow user and company level features with the use of #include and include=>?
>
>Does anyone know what I can look for in the source to increase this limit to a reasonable number, say... several THOUSAND? What bad things could happen if I increased this limit?
>
>I'm flabbergasted. Please, someone tell me I have got this all wrong.
>
>Doug.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Garstang 
>Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:46 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Extensions.conf error - 'Maximum Include
>level(10) exceeded'
>
>
>Can someone tell me why the following from extensions.conf generates this error on asterisk load?
>
>Jan 13 09:27:24 WARNING[31701]: config.c:938 ast_config_internal_load: Maximum Include level (10) exceeded
>
>As far as I can tell I don't have a DEPTH of 10 includes. I certainly have more than 10 include statements, but I don't have them drilled down to a depth of 10. I'm thinking the error text is wrong. Maybe you can't have more than 10 includes? And is it talking about #include or include=> ? None of the .conf files included here have any include statements.
>
>
>[OffNet]
>; lines removed
>
>[OnNet]
>; lines removed
>include => OffNet
>
>[comp_wildwildwest]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/features.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/blocked-outgoing.conf"
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/blocked-incoming.conf"
>
>[user_3250071]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/3250071/features.conf"
>[user_3250072]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/3250072/features.conf"
>[user_20000]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20000/features.conf"
>[user_20001]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20001/features.conf"
>[user_20002]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20002/features.conf"
>[user_20003]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20003/features.conf"
>[user_20004]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20004/features.conf" ; If I comment this line, the error goes away.
>[user_20005]
>#include "inc/wildwildwest/20005/features.conf"
>
>[entry_3250071]
>include => user_3250071
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => OnNet
>[entry_3250072]
>include => user_3250071
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => OnNet
>[entry_20000]
>include => user_20000
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
>[entry_20001]
>include => user_20001
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
>[entry_20002]
>include => user_20002
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
>[entry_20003]
>include => user_20003
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
>[entry_20004]
>include => user_20004
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
>[entry_20005]
>include => user_20005
>include => comp_wildwildwest
>include => Nowhere
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