David,

I agree that there are better ways to do billing, but I must work within the 
constraints of the larger system of which I am only a part.

We do use some other techniques to detect “stuck” calls, including the (fairly) 
new Re-Invite pinging mechanism of the dialog module. We do not process the 
audio, so silence detection is not possible.

It is a very small number of calls that are affected by this, hopefully none 
now that we have the pinging in place, but I am still interested in the answer 
to the question. It seems to me there could be other use cases for modifying 
the CDR based on the response to a BYE, whether generated from OpenSIPS or not.

Ben Newlin

From: Users <[email protected]> on behalf of David Villasmil 
<[email protected]>
Reply-To: OpenSIPS users mailling list <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, September 7, 2018 at 5:53 PM
To: OpenSIPS users mailling list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OpenSIPS-Users] Accounting BYE response


I think you should take care of this on your gateway. For example, using 
freeswitch or asterisk, you can check for rtps, and when the other end stops 
sending rtps for 30 seconds (configurable) it will tear down the call properly.

Unless you're using a rtp-proxy with opensips which can do this (most can), 
that's the way to do this. Anything else is just duct-taping.

My opinion after 20 years on voip.

Hope that helps.

David

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018, 21:43 Ben Newlin 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

I am having an issue trying to add values to accounting based on the response 
to the BYE request.

We use the dialog timeout mechanism to terminate long calls in our system. In 
some cases, these are “valid” calls that remained connected for too long due to 
some error elsewhere in the application. But sometimes one or both ends of the 
call believe they have disconnected, but we did not receive or process the 
disconnect, due to a malformed BYE or a network disruption. In these cases, 
when the Dialog timeout is reached and OpenSIPS generates a BYE to both 
parties, they will respond with a 481.

What I want is to set a CDR flag on receipt of that 481 to indicate that there 
was an error and the calculated call time may not be correct. But it seems that 
any accounting flags set after the BYE is sent are not honored. Is there any 
way to accomplish this?

This is my attempt:

failure_route[local_failure]
{
  $acc_extra(disconnect_error) = "true";
}

local_route
{
  t_on_failure("local_failure");
}

Ben Newlin
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