From:	asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com on behalf of Tilghman Lesher 
[tlesher@digium.com]
Sent:	03 December 2010 22:53
To:	Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject:	Re: [asterisk-users] Correct operation of timout parameter for dial
	application

Due By:	06 January 2010 22:20

On Tuesday 30 November 2010 07:14:34 Bruce McAlister wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'd just like to verify what the correct operation of the timeout 
> parameter is for the dial application. I'm not sure if I've 
> encountered a bug or a configuration issue.
> 
> When a sip phone is not responding to invites on an outbound call, the 
> dial application still waits the duration of timeout before continuing 
> with dialplan execution. I was under the impression that app_dial 
> would timeout on the signalling prior to the timeout parameter 
> specified in the dial parameter.
> 
> For example, consider the following dialplan:
> 
> exten => 111,1),Dial(SIP/phone1,30,tg) exten => 
> 111,n,NoOp(DialStatus=${DIALSTATUS})
> exten => 111,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CHANUNAVAIL]?unavail) exten => 
> 111,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = NOANSWER]?unavail) exten => 
> 111,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = BUSY]?busy) exten => 
> 111,n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} = CONGESTION]?busy) exten => 
> 111,n(unavail), Goto(voice-mail,vmu-phone1,1) exten => 111,n(busy), 
> Goto(voice-mail,vmb-phone1,1)
> 
> Under normal operation the originating caller is passed through to 
> voicemail. However, if/when the device is not responding to invites, 
> for whatever reason, the dial application waits 30 seconds before 
> setting the DIALSTATUS to NOANSWER. Is this expected behaviour? In 
> previous versions of asterisk, specifically (v1.2/v1.4) when the 
> device did not respond to invites the dial application exited prior to 
> the value specified by timeout.
> 
> Can anyone clarify this issue for me please? Is this expected behaviour?

I seem to recall an issue like that some time back where somebody thought that 
if their SIP phone wasn't responding, the Dial app should wait the full 30 
seconds before giving up, but I cannot find the related commit for that.  I'm 
sure there's arguments on both sides for the behavior.  I'd suggest that you 
open an issue on issues.asterisk.org, and we can take a look at how we could 
accommodate both approaches.

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