[asterisk-users] Bugs??

[Michiel van Baak]

> >Currently I am running 120 VoIP SIP channels on my asterisk server 
> >but each day 2, 3 calls got hanged in asterisk,  and on asterisk CLI 
> >"show channels" showing us as call UP but in real there is no call.
> >
> >When asterisk restarted the hanged calls removed from CLI with very 
> >high duration which damaged our billing system and customers 
> >accounts goes in high negative.
> >
> >First I tried to get call info from asterisk mysql CDR using billsec 
> >field but the same result then I create PERL AGI to get duration 
> >from "ANSWEREDTIME" and same result.
> >
> >Please have a look to the following URL which I put the result of 
> >"show channel <channelname>" you can see the DIALSTATUS=CONGESTION 
> >but Elapsed Time: 20h54m16s which really strange and out of my mind 
> >to control such as call.
> >
> >http://www.emafone.net/bugs.html
> >
> >Please advice us if it is Bug and solved in some ver or its need 
> >some configuration to avoid this issue.
> >
> >This is in both ver of asterisk 1.2 and 1.4

I guess you have a call to the Congestion dialplan function.
We found out in some locations this will go on forever.
A simple fix is to give the Congestion function call a max
duration like: exten => foo,n,Congestion(3) followed by a
Hangup()

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