[asterisk-dev] decrease Max-Forwards header

[Raj Jain]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote:
> "Raj Jain" <rj2807 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> IMHO, this makes some sense but not a whole lot because in the
>> scenario you mentioned Asterisk is acting as a B2BUA not a proxy. It
>> is a proxy's job to detect loops and not B2BUA's.
>
> This is true, but it is rather easy to make a loop with Asterisk. If
> we could use a piece of proxy technology to mitigate that problem,
> then I am all for it. As long as it doesn't break anything, of course.
>
> It wouldn't solve everything; I have made call loops on PRI circuits
> several times, and Max-Forwards couldn't do anything about that.
> Still, better than nothing.

Fine. I guess this can be viewed as a "policy" implemented in the
B2BUA, where the Max-Forwards is decremented as a call traverses
through the B2BUA. That way, we are not breaking any rules of the
protocol. As long as this is not Asterisk's default behavior, I guess
it makes practical sense to implement this.

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Raj Jain