> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Sip-implementors] retransmission time-out
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Suppose a UAC has a list of destination IP addresses resulted 
> from DNS look
> up, 

SRV lookup, I presume.

> and sends an INVITE to the first IP address. Consider the 
> following
> failure cases.
> 
> (1) The retransmission of INVITE times out after 32 seconds 
> and no response
> has been received. Should the UAC try to send the INVITE to the next
> available IP address?

Yes.

> 
> (2) The UAC determines that the IP address is not reachable via ICMP
> messages. Should the UAC try the next available IP address? 

Yes.

> If so, the
> following statement from bis-04 means that the UAC should consider the
> server-unreachable failure as 400-class error response, only after
> determining that all the IP addresses are not reachable?

Thats right. 

> 
> In bis-04, Sectio 1.4.2, it states, "....If the client finds 
> the server is not reachable at a particular address, it 
> SHOULD behave as if it had
> received a
> 400-class error response to that request."

This text is confusing, since it would imply that you don't continue down
the SRV list, which is not true. I will remove that sentence.

Thanks,
Jonathan R.
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