Thanks for your fast answers!
Is there any RFC statements regarding the fact that UAS should ignore the
malformed ACK?
I have to persuade the UAS implementor!
Thanks

Andrea


2015-04-03 11:04 GMT+02:00 Alok Tiwari <alo...@globallogic.com>:

> ​Hi Andrea,
> UAS should simply ignore the malformed ACK messages. Since the ACK message
> is malformed, UAS will re-transmit the 400 response of INVITE for 32
> seconds.
>
> Thanks,
> Alok Tiwari​
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Andrea <fuffa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> we are facing an issue where a malformed INVITE generate a message storm
>> (loop).
>> UAC send a malformed INVITE to UAS (from and contact header invalid)
>> UAS replies with error 400 bad request
>> UAC send a malformed ACK to UAS (from and contact header invalid)
>> UAS replies with error 400 bad request in response to the malformed ACK
>> UAC send a malformed ACK to UAS in response to the latest 400 bad req
>> and the loop continues....
>>
>> this generate a message storm that is consuming cpu resources for 32
>> seconds.
>>
>>
>> I looked for specific RFCs but I cannot find something clear.
>> So, the question: is it admitted that the UAS replies to the ACK with a
>> 400
>> bad request or it should simply ignore the malformed ACK?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>> Andrea
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