SIP 503 Service Unavailable

TwilioRFC 3261 §21.5.4

The server is temporarily unable to process the request. Often emitted by SBCs / proxies under load or when the next-hop is down.

Common causes on Twilio

  • Trunk to next-hop is down (carrier outage)
  • SBC overloaded / hit a quota
  • DNS SRV failover in progress
  • Asterisk PJSIP `qualify` marked endpoint unreachable

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