On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Steve Davies <davies...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 19 December 2012 21:54, Christopher Harrington <ch...@acsdi.com> wrote:
>
>> You probably already know this, but 1.4x is very old (released in 2006)
>> and is officially end-of-life.
>>
>> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions
>>
>> You might get more help or better behavior by updating to a newer more
>> current version of Asterisk, such as 1.8 which will be receiving bug fixes
>> into October 2014.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:47 PM, James Lamanna <jlama...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a PSTN Asterisk box that's connected to other dialplan PBXes
>>> through IAX2.
>>>
>>> Recently this box was upgraded to 1.4.44 with the latest DAHDI version.
>>> I've noticed that if one of the dialplan PBXes calls Congestion(), the PRI
>>> will return ISDN code 34 (as its supposed to do).
>>> However, the issue is that subsequent calls into that PRI channel are
>>> immediately responded by a Code 44 (channel not available) even though
>>> there is no live call on the channel.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Its a pretty crippling
>>> behavior since all of our channels eventually become unresponsive until a
>>> 'dahdi restart' is issued.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -- James
>>>
>>
> I believe that what you are describing is a very old bug, which is fixed
> somewhere in the 1.8 timeline when the interface between DAHDI and Asterisk
> is changed slightly. I encountered the same issue some time ago. I do not
> recall the exact conditions under which the issue happens, but I believe it
> is the attempt to cancel an unanswered inbound call with a specific subset
> of cause codes.
>
> If you are using an older Asterisk version, the only workaround is to use
> Playtones + Hangup() instead of sending the Congestion() or Busy() cause
> codes.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> Thanks Steve.
It must have been introduced between DAHDI 2.4.0 and 2.6.1 or between
Asterisk 1.4.35 and 1.4.44.
I had a box running Asterisk 1.4.35 + DAHDI 2.4.0 and I never had any
issues.

-- James
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