Index: apps/app_dial.c
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--- apps/app_dial.c	(revision 266098)
+++ apps/app_dial.c	(working copy)
@@ -655,7 +655,11 @@
 	while (outgoing) {
 		/* Hangup any existing lines we have open */
 		if (outgoing->chan && (outgoing->chan != exception)) {
-			if (answered_elsewhere) {
+			/* The exception is the channel that answered. If there is no
+			 * exception, then nobody answered, and therefore the call
+			 * could not have been answered elsewhere.
+			 */
+			if (exception && answered_elsewhere) {
 				/* The flag is used for local channel inheritance and stuff */
 				ast_set_flag(outgoing->chan, AST_FLAG_ANSWERED_ELSEWHERE);
 				/* This is for the channel drivers */