Polycom SIP 2.2.0 manual For Outgoing Calls Invite Fallback

Configuring Your System

DNS SIP Server Name Resolution

If a DNS name is given for a proxy/registrar address, the IP address(es) associated with that name will be discovered as specified in RFC 3263. If a port is given, the only lookup will be an A record. If no port is given, NAPTR and SRV records will be tried, before falling back on A records if NAPTR and SRV records return no results. If no port is given, and none is found through DNS, 5060 will be used.

Refer to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3263.txt for an example.

Note	Failure to resolve a DNS name is treated as signalling failure that will cause a
	failover.

Behavior When the Primary Server Connection Fails

For Outgoing Calls (INVITE Fallback)

When the user initiates a call, the phone will go through the following steps to connect the call:

1.Try to make the call using the working server.

2.If the working server does not respond correctly to the INVITE, then try and make a call using the next server in the list (even if there is no current registration with these servers). This could be the case if the Internet connection has gone down, but the registration to the working server has not yet expired.

3.If the second server is also unavailable, the phone will try all possible servers (even those not currently registered) until it either succeeds in making a call or exhausts the list at which point the call will fail.

At the start of a call, server availability is determined by SIP signaling failure. SIP signaling failure depends on the SIP protocol being used as described below:

•If TCP is used, then the signaling fails if the connection fails or the Send fails.

•If UDP is used, then the signaling fails if ICMP is detected or if the signal times out. If the signaling has been attempted through all servers in the list and this is the last server, then the signaling fails after the complete UDP timeout defined in RFC 3261. If it is not the last server in the list, the maximum number of retries using the configurable retry timeout is used. For more information, refer to Server <server/> on page A-7and Registration <reg/> on page A-84.

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