[OpenSER-Devel] force_rtp_proxy("l"); - OpenSer crashes

[Dan Pascu]

On Thursday 22 November 2007, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Dan,
>
> According to RFC3261 the timers are per branch (for each destination
> your proxy tries). So if you do serial forking to 3 destination, the
> client will experience the 3 X proxy_timeout.
>
> For DNS based failover, serial forking is done, so for each branch,
> openser will wait the configured time.

But this is not exactly serial forking, is it? If you get a provisional 
response from the first IP you contact you do not failover to the others 
even if the call is not answered, but with serial forking you do. Plus 
serial forking is under the script control, while this is not. Even more 
the N addresses from DNS represent the same entity and you can contact 
each of them and get to the same result. With serial forking each entity 
you connect is different, just the next to contact if the previous one 
didn't answer.

I'm sure you understand what I meant. This parameter is not under my 
control, is under the control of the destination as long as it's value 
depends on what the target DNS contains and having to wait a random time 
(and sometimes a huge one) until you get a timeout is bizarre from a user 
perspective. I think developers should put themselves in the user's shoes 
now and then and see the issue from their perspective to avoid cases 
where every bit of the code is "right" but the end result is wrong.

-- 
Dan