asterisk users - Oct 2009 - Asterisk 1.6.1.6 crashing -- multiple phone entries

Folks,

Not sure what's going on, but suddenly Asterisk 1.6.1.6 is crashing,
usually when I exit the console or use asterisk -rx.  The sip peers
entry always shows duplicate entries (once I had an extension over
half a dozen times) just before it crashes.

3182/3182                  172.17.0.126     D   N      5060     OK (14 ms)
3183/3183                  172.17.0.128     D   N      5060     OK (14 ms)
3183/3183                  172.17.0.128     D   N      5060     OK (14 ms)
3184/3184                  (Unspecified)    D   N      5060     UNKNOWN

Is this a known issue?  It did just start crashing (and again, only
after exhibiting this bizarre behavior of multiple duplicate entries).
 My other system running 1.6.1.6 does not appear to have this problem.

Any thoughts?

Thanx,

David A. Bandel
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