[Asterisk-Users] Zombie SIP channels

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi, 

> -----Original Message-----
> Does anyone know how to kill a zombie channel?
> 
> Here is what I see on a show channels:
> --------------------------------------------------
> show channels
>         Channel  (Context    Extension    Pri )   State Appl.        
> Data
> SIP/frontdesk-72c7  (customercontext               1   )      Up
> Bridged Call  SIP/frontdesk-0461<ZOMBIE>
> SIP/frontdesk-0461<ZOMBIE>  (customercontext 100          1   )   
> Ring Dial          SIP/frontdesk|20|t
> 2 active channel(s)
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> No one is on a call - how can I get rid of this without 
> restarting asterisk?

This was an issue in older versions of asterisk. It would help if you could
tell us what setup you are running.
If this is infact your problem too, a simple update of your asterisk to
1.0.3 or later will help.

Florian