[Asterisk-Dev] clearing 'stuck' channels

[John Todd]

No, not yet.  I was waiting to confirm that it was still happening in 
the absolute latest CVS.  I did see more symptoms last night, and I 
will report the bug later today as soon as I get a nice fat list of 
stuck SIP channels built up.

JT

>Have you made a bug report on this?  What is the number?
>
>John Todd wrote:
>
>>Did you find any solutions to this?  I've recently discovered the 
>>same problem with my server here.  I had 499 "sip show channels" 
>>entries, and then Asterisk refused to start up any new sessions due 
>>to "Too many files open".   In fact, 'reload' worked but didn't 
>>work, due to the inability of the system to open any of the config 
>>files. I had to shut Asterisk down to get things working again.  My 
>>CVS version was four days old.
>>
>>I've updated to CVS as of two hours ago, and am watching to see if 
>>this happens any more.  I think it has something to do with 
>>"REGISTER" requests outbound from * not being cleared correctly, 
>>somehow.
>>
>>JT
>>
>>>     I'm seeing a case where I get a large number of 'stuck'
>>>channels as it relates to users that sit behind poorly behaving
>>>nat devices.
>>>
>>>     these calls tend to be initiated and have unidirectional
>>>voice (eg: we can hear the user behind the nat, but not the
>>>other way around ..)
>>>
>>>     this means that messages can't be sent to them (and get ACK)
>>>saying that they will terminate the call, etc..
>>>
>>>     is there a way that i'm unaware of to time these out, or
>>>is this what I think it is which is a bug where the call/channel gets
>>>stuck until such time as it can be terminated?
>>>
>>>     - jared
>>>
>>>-- snip --
>>>
>>>     peer and dialed numbers munged to protect the innocent ;-)
>>>
>>>sip-server*CLI> sip show channels
>>>Peer             User/ANR    Call ID      Seq (Tx/Rx)  Lag
>>>Jitter  Format
>>>[big mess deleted]
>>>
>>>--
>>>Jared Mauch  | pgp key available via finger from jared at puck.nether.net
>>>clue++;      | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/  My statements are only mine.