[Serusers] lookup() and forking

[Jan Janak]

O'Shaughnessy Evans wrote:
> Hello.  I'm trying to debug a problem I seem to be having with parallel
> forking and I'd like to check my understanding of ser's behavior on a
> few points.
> 
> I have 2 phone numbers registered in the location table for a certain
> subscriber, each with a q value of 1.  When I call the subscriber number,
> I don't see ser forking and then sending an INVITE to each contact, but
> only the one with the lower expiration value (the first number that
> "serctl ul show" lists).  I have append_branches set to 1 and
> desc_time_order set to 0.

  That is correct. Parallel forking is the default behavior even if you
  do not set these parameters.

> The way I've understood everything I've read, lookup() should be laying
> the groundwork for the tm module to fork ser so that when I call t_relay
> ser will intiate one INVITE to each location with the same q value.  Is
> this not correct?  Is there anything special I should be doing to tell
> it to fork an INVITE to each contact at this point?

  Yes, that is correct.

    Jan.