[Freeswitch-users] server failure

[Tim St. Pierre]

I think you are missing something, or at least not really explaining the problem.

SIP doesn't need to maintain a connection between calls.  If you are using udp, there isn't any
state maintained.

If your server goes down (ie. crashes or reboots), and the registration information is stored in a
persistent database, it can still be valid when it comes back up, or that registration data can also
be used by a different server that is replicating the same data.  Usually it's NAT that gets in the
way of this - closing the udp ports due to inactivity or something else similar.  There are lots of
failover options in SIP.  You can use SRV records with multiple proxies, etc.  All a phone needs to
do is to keep a server informed of where to find it if a call comes in.  There is no need to
maintain a connection.

Depending on the endpoint, a lot of phones will switch to a backup server, and keep trying the
primary server.  If it comes back up, it wil re-register to the primary.  Again, if this data is
replicated, it doesn't really matter which server it registers to, as long as it registers somewhere.

Maybe if you explain in a bit more detail, someone can help out a bit more.

-Tim

marian szczepkowski wrote:
>   Hi
> 
>  From what I can gather the idiots who wrote SIP decided that a server 
> is a never a point of failure, x.25 and all other telecommunication 
> protocols I have had experience with are able to recover from a remote 
> end error/restart. All I can find with SIP is a daft time out in the 
> device to perform a re-registration request, and until that time the 
> unit is unable to make a call.
> 
> Am I missing something or do I have to go jump through hoops with my 
> phone code to re-connect to a server after a server failure.
> 
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