SIP 491 Request Pending

AsteriskRFC 3261 §14.1

A re-INVITE collided with a pending request. RFC 3261 prescribes a backoff retry; usually transient.

Common causes on Asterisk

  • Glare from simultaneous re-INVITEs (hold/unhold, codec change)
  • Some SIP-T/SIP-I gateways re-INVITE aggressively

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