[Users] Accounting wrong BYEs

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Tue Jul 18 14:18:02 CEST 2006


Hi,

what happens with the INVITE transaction? how does it end from reply 
code point of view?
If it is ok, there is nothing you can do - from SIP point of view, it 
will be a short call.
If negative, depends of your acc config if the INVITE records is logged 
or not

regards,
bogdan


Dimo wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a problem with accounting wrong BYEs:
> I have noticed that some UAs like the spa are sending BYE to cancel an
> INVITE instead of a CANCEL message. Now openser is interpreting this
> correctly, but the problem is with accounting which will account this
> BYE as call stop. Since there was never OK to the invite, there is no
> call start and just a call stop which makes my billing very unhappy.
> Is it possible to have something in the accounting module that will
> prevent such "fake" byes of being accounted?
> I am also thinking how to script it in my config, what i have thought
> of so far is when receiving a BYE to check if there is ongoing
> transaction  and if there is, do not flag the BYE for accounting. This
> however will probably result in some real BYEs not being accounted
> too, because (correct me if wrong) the transaction will still exist in
> mem for some short time after the OK is received.
> Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Dimo
>
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