Re: [sipcore] Bypassing out-of-service intermediate Proxy

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <[e-mail]>]

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When a proxy or UA fails to send a SIP request to the next hop (because this latter is not reachable) is it allowed to bypass this hop and send the request to the hop whose URI is next in ROUTE header.

According to section 21.5.4 of RFC 3261, this proxy behaviour seems allowed. See text in bold below:

Any opinions on this?
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It is an interesting and novel idea, but I am sure that nobody has considered it to be correct behavior.

However, there is an alternative technique that achieves the effect you desire:  When a proxy adds a Record-Route header for itself, it should not use its hostname, but rather a DNS name with a set of SRV records that specify itself (at high priority) and one or more alternative proxies (at lower priority).  This will cause later requests in the same dialog to be routed through itself (as long as it remains functional) but if it fails, the upstream element can send the request to one of the alternative proxies.

Dale