[asterisk-users] Asterisk just stops working...

[Steve Totaro]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Nicolas Ross
<rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:11:22 -0400, Nicolas Ross wrote
>>> Now, when my server begin not to respond, when I do a sip show peers, I
>>> only
>>> see a subset of the users, and not the summary line. If I do other
>>> commands
>>> like "core show channels", it simply shows nothing at all. Not even a "0
>>> active channels". Reload, or any other similar commands goes unansered.
>>> The
>>> "core" works as it still answers calls on the PRI, but sip extensions
>>> can't
>>> be reached, etc.
>>
>> I have had asterisk do this if its hanging on a DNS request.. you got any
>> peers in there
>> using DNS?
>
> I don,t beleive it's the case. I beleive asterisk would still answer to the
> "core show channels" command if it were the case...
>
> The clients (phones) are configured to register with a fqdn domain. The
> peers are type=friend, host-dynamic.
>
> I did change some changes to my dialplan so that I don't use queues and
> agents anymore... We'll see if it happens again.
>
> By the way, my asterisk doesn't crash, I don't have a core dump. And since
> core show locks doesn't provide anything when I'm in that situation, how
> could I contribute ?
>
> Thanks,
>

Just curious, do you do alot of reloads before the system starts acting funny?

I am not sure how to quantify "alot" but have you seen this after
starting asterisk and not issuing *any* reloads?

I have seen a direct correlation to reloads and the situation you are
describing.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro