In my opinion, proxy would return 480 response, if request-URI belongs
to the domain for which proxy in question is responsible, but none of
contacts (for this AOR URI) are registered at the given time.

- Harmeet Singh

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Subject: [Sip-implementors] 404 versus 480


The last two paragraphs in RFC 3261 section 16.5 says:

"If the Request-URI indicates a resource at this proxy that does not 
exist, the proxy MUST return a 404 (Not Found) response.
If the target set remains empty after applying all of the above, the 
proxy MUST return an error response,
which SHOULD be the 480 (Temporarily Unavailable) response."

My interpretation of this is that if the domain of the Request-URI  
indicates a domain this proxy is responsible for, but lookup (but 
location service, and other local policies) failed, then we return 404.

My question is, when would we ever encounter a case where we should 
return 480?  If the domain of the Request-URI is external (this proxy is

NOT responsible for), we would have forwarded the request to that 
external domain immediately (section 16.5 paragraph 3).

Thanks.


King

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