12 dec 2011 kl. 10:33 skrev Daniel-Constantin Mierla:

> Hello,
> 
> On 12/10/11 11:36 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> 9 dec 2011 kl. 18:54 skrev Spencer Thomason:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> Is it possible to configure Kamailio to reply to a request with a 503 if it 
>>> cannot connect to a necessary database for the operation?
>>> 
>>> I.e.  Kamailio cannot connect to the database, when a REGISTER comes in and 
>>> userloc can't find the credentials (due to DB failure), respond with a 503. 
>>>  The requesting endpoint can then fail over properly.  The same behaviour 
>>> would be desired for other modules as well, i.e. aliasdb.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I noticed using 3.1.5 that it simply does not authorize the user.
>>> 
>>> 
>> I have been thinking about this as well. We could implement a db_ping 
>> function so we could test in the routing script before
>> calling functions that use the DB. It's harder with stuff that happens in 
>> the background, like ACC and SIPTRACE. I don't know
>> what happens with them if the database fails.
> one option would be to set a config env variable, like db_error, which is set 
> by the db modules on error. Then can be checked in the config and act 
> accordingly. This will require touching the db modules.
> 
> Alternative is to propagate some return codes up to config file, but this 
> will require changes in all modules interacting with database, including the 
> db modules.

Great. I think a db_ping which forces a test, a db_status variable that shows 
the result of the last database operation is a good start.

The return code stuff is a more long term issue. I'll try to allocate time to 
see if I can get somewhere with these two. If I need help, this list will now 
:-)

/O
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