[Asterisk-Users] 2 minutes pause before ring on H323 channel

[John Daragon]

Peter Valkov wrote:
> I have build asterisk from latest CVS HEAD-05/09/05 with H323 support as described in README file.
> Open H.323 version v1.17.1 and PWLib v1.9.0 on Mandrake Linux 10.2 kernel-2.6.11
> 
> I tested it with following phones: 
> -- XLite (SIP softphone)
> -- QMix SIP IP phone (PA168F)
> -- SJPhone (H323 softphone)
> -- QMix H323 IP phone (PA168F)
> -- FireFly (IAX2 softphone)
> 
> Everything works fine except a problem with h323 extension dialing. Behavior is the same for both
> SJPhone (soft phone) and QMix (PA168F). When I dial such extension I have to wait 2 minutes
> exactly (120 seconds) before extension rings. After long way of trial and errors with .conf files
> I managed to minimize this time to 1 minute exactly (60 seconds) 
> 
> exten => 20,1,Dial(H323/h323phone) ; this leads to 120 seconds pause before ring 
> exten => 21,1,Dial(H323/h323phone at 192.168.0.101) ; this leads to 60 seconds pause before ring 

Peter, hi;

I haven't looked at the openh323 code, and I might not get time to... 
but in my limited experience, 60 second delays are almost always DNS 
timeouts.

jd

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