[OpenSIPS-Users] [OpenSIPS-Devel] Why the best response is 408 instead of 486 when parallel forking?

[Dan Pascu]

On Monday 27 October 2008, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > El Lunes, 27 de Octubre de 2008, Dan Pascu escribió:
> >> So are you saying that we should base the selection logic in the
> >> proxy on the assumption that devices are well behaved and won't send
> >> a 6xx? What if a proxy sends a 6xx because a clueless admin wrote a
> >> script where he used 6xx because he thought they are better? Will
> >> you contact all the proxies/devices/gateways out there and ask them
> >> nicely to fix their behavior because your proxy cannot work
> >> properly? Don't you see someone's ability to cause DOS using this?
> >
> > Dan, I'm completely anti-6xx responses, in fact you can read this
> > thread from me in sip-implementors:
> >
> > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/sip-implementors/2008-June/01
> >9413.html
> >
> > In fact, the only I don't like in my prefer softphone (Twinkle) is
> > the fact that it uses 603 to decline a call instead of 480/486.
>
> If I have a phone in the bed room and in the living room, and I want to
> reject a call, a 603 is IMO very useful.

Unless you imposed an embargo in your house :P, someone may way to answer 
another phone ringing in the living room. All you can say is that I don't 
want to be disturbed because I'm sleeping, not that none else in the 
house should receive a call.

-- 
Dan