[Serusers] Setting timeout in SER

[Jan Janak]

On 10-02 14:56, scm-j at nuntius.com wrote:
> When I receive a SIP INVITE from my service provider, the normal call
> flow is for SER to forward it to my Asterisk for authentication.
> However, if the Asterisk is down, SER keeps attempting by sending
> multiple INVITEs to Asterisk, until it receives a CANCEL from the
> service provider.
> 
>  
> 
> The preferred behavior is for SER to give up after 2-3 unsuccessful
> attempts and send a "503 Service Unavailable" message back to the
> service provider. Is there a way to do this in ser.cfg or anywhere else
> in SER? Any examples would be much appreciated.

  Note that 5xx means that an error has occured on the server, which is
  not true in this case. I would keep the original response which would
  be 408 Request Timeout.

    Jan.