Hi Alex,

RFC 3261, section "6. Choosing the best response" states:

"A proxy which receives a 503 (Service Unavailable) response
SHOULD NOT forward it upstream unless it can determine that any
subsequent requests it might proxy will also generate a 503.
In other words, forwarding a 503 means that the proxy knows it
cannot service any requests, not just the one for the Request-
URI in the request which generated the 503. If the only
response that was received is a 503, the proxy SHOULD generate
a 500 response and forward that upstream."

So Kamailio (the TM module) is doing right there. In recent versions of kamailio the TM module has a remap_503_500 parameter to control this behavior (http://www.kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/tm.html#remap_503_500), but not in the 1.5.x branch (http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/1.5.x/tm.html).

Hope this helps...to convince your customer to upgrade ;-)

Cheers,

Federico

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've got an installation that is still running Kamailio 1.5.x. Yes, I know: "They're running WHAT?" As far as I'm concerned, it was EOL'd in early 2010. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop the customer from running it. They're probably the most change-resistant customer in the history of IP telecom, and, knowing this industry, that's a high bar. There's not much I can do about it.

Anyway, I have a bit of a mystery:

GW Proxy PBX
==================================================

------- INVITE ------>

<---- 100 Trying ----

-------- INVITE -------->

<------ 100 Trying ------

<- 503 Service Unavailable

---------- ACK --------->

<- 500 Service Una...

-------- ACK -------->

There is no basis in the configuration for the translation of the "503 Service Unavailable" reply to "500 Service Unavailable", so I'm thinking it has to be rooted in some default module behaviour.

Any insight would be appreciated!

-- Alex

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