[asterisk-users] Help needed with getting a maxed-out Asterisk to gracefully deny calls.

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Chris Kairalla wrote:

> This is great, and asterisk will deny calls once it hits this max  
> number.  OK, here's where I get stuck.  Once that max is reached,  
> Asterisk will send a "480 Temporarily Unavailable", which is great,  
> and a "BYE" which is not great, as that gets passed along to the PTSN  
> and hangs up the call.  Kamailio properly sends the call to another  
> Asterisk server, but the call no longer exists because of the BYE and  
> the call eventually times out on the new Asterisk server.
> 
> Is this BYE a bug in the way Asterisk handles SIP, or is this normal  
> SIP behavior and I should find another way to gracefully deny the call  
> back to Kamailio?

That sounds like a bug; the 480 is a final response, Asterisk should not
be sending any other responses for that call.

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