[Asterisk-Users] BLF not working after reload

[BJ Weschke]

On 2/26/06, mustardman29 <mustardman29 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> According to this blurb I found on the Asterisk Wiki, it was supposed to be
> fixed so it still works after a reload.  Your suggestion is all fine and
> dandy but does nothing to rectify a server reboot.  If phones have to be
> rebooted everytime the Asterisk server is rebooted or the sip.conf is
> reloaded just to allow BLF to keep working then this is a show stopper for
> me!
>
> "Update Aug. 2005 (for Asterisk 1.2.0)
> After months in the bug tracker (bug 3644), we've finally committed a lot of
> changes to the SIP Subscribe subsystem in Asterisk cvs head:
>
> It now works even if you reload the dial plan
> It does not accept subscriptions to extensions without hints
> It will terminate subscriptions if the hint does not exist after a dialplan
> reload
>
> To get this to work properly, you
>
> Add a hint to the dialplan for the extension
> Optional: Configure incominglimit for the device (renamed to "call-limit" in
> Asterisk v.1.2)
> Optional: Enable "notifyringing = yes" if you'd also like to see the RINGING
> state to be notified"
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Garstang [mailto:dgarstang at oneeighty.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:19 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] BLF not working after reload
> >
> > If you do a 'reload' in Asterisk, it deletes all the sip
> > subscriptions. Do a 'sip show subscriptions' before and after
> > a reload command. They will disappear. I've been bitching
> > about this for a while, and asking why subscriptions can't be
> > stored in astdb like registrations.
> >
> > If you reboot the phone, it sends the SIP SUBSCRIBE message
> > to Asterisk again, which remembers it until the next reload.
> > If you reboot the Astrisk server, you obviously lose it as
> > well, because Asterisk is storing them in memory (not astdb).
> >
> > One workaround, is to not issue 'reload' commands. Just
> > reload the module you've changed. I think reloading SIP will
> > delete the subscriptions. For example, if you change the dial
> > plan just issue an 'extensions reload'. Your subscriptions
> > should remain.
> >
> > Lets just hope it's a long time for you between alternations
> > to sip.conf!
> >

 See Bug #6047 pls. It's got a pointer to a branch of /trunk that does
fix this with regard to subscriptions surviving a reload.

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