Subject: RE: [AAA-WG]: Question on Relaying Answers Section 6.2.2

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 03:02:47 +0300

Hi Dilip,

> I was reading the base protocol Section 6.2.2
> 
> Its states
> "The agent MUST then send the answer to the host that
> it received the original request from."
> 
> Question:
> What if the Host where this answer has to be sent is
> DOWN(i.e connection has lost)

You should look at the state machines in section 5.6,
8.1 and 8.2.  It depends on what kind of session
you have and what messages you are using.

The host is the endpoint of the Diameter session, and 
if it is DOWN, there may be need for failover or
session termination, for example.

thanks,
John