Actually, on second thoughts, you should get an ICMP error when you attempt 
to send the ACK to the IP/port that was down. This should result in you 
resending the ACK to another IP/port from the DNS list?
 Venkatesh

 On 6/16/05, Isaac Dudy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> What will happen if the UA works with outbound proxy farm, so the UA
> sends the INVITE to a FQDN which resolved to all the proxies in the
> farm. The first proxy is down so the INVITE transaction is done through
> the second proxy. Now the UA wants to send the ACK so it has the same
> FQDN as the INVITE and the ACK will go to the first proxy again. My
> assumption here is that UA that works with outbound proxy always sends
> all transaction to the outbound proxy regardless of other routing
> information that arrives in the 2xx on the INVITE, maybe my assumption
> is wrong, please advise.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David Isaac.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dale
> Worley
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Sip-implementors] Resolving in ACK request
> 
> That's true, it could happend. But if you don't put IP addresses in as
> the hosts in Record-Route's, you should use names that preferentially
> resolve to the IP address of the host adding the Record-Route. Section
> 6 of RFC 3263 discusses a clever way to accomplish this. If done right,
> the chances of an attempt being made to send to a down server are
> greatly reduced.
> 
> Dale
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Venkatesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:33 AM
> To: Dale Worley
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] Resolving in ACK request
> 
> 
> I think this scenario happens if all the RR headers that got added by
> proxies were FQDN's that resolved to multiple IP addresses (per section
> 16.6 of 3261 this is possible, as the RR header MUST resolve to the IP
> address/port of this element that or a suitable stand in). On receipt of
> the 200 OK, the UA constructs the route set which is a set of FQDN's. It
> builds the ACK. It uses the Route set to send the ACK. This results in
> the UA having to do a DNS lookup. The response returned by DNS could
> result in the UA choosing an IP address/port of a proxy that is down.
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