Frequently Asked Question
SIP Response Codes and their Meanings.
Last Updated 6 years ago
Session Initiation Protocol has a range of response codes as listed below. If your using GEN Hosted or Onsite Telephony and your receiving codes on your handset then please raise a ticket at the HelpDesk and we'll resolve that for you.
Informational Responses
These codes are information only and are useful in indicating the current 'state' of the call.
Server Failure Responses
Global Failure Responses
Informational Responses
These codes are information only and are useful in indicating the current 'state' of the call.
- 100 Trying - Just general response to a command
- 180 Ringing - The endpoint is ringing (apparently)
- 181 Call Is Being Forwarded - A forward is in place
- 182 Queued - The endpoint is queued and your in it.
- 183 Session Progress - This just indicates that call setup is in progress and usually contains some status data in the message body.
- 200 OK - Doesn't always mean ok, but the message was accepted ok.
- 202 accepted - It Indicates that the request has been understood but actually can’t be processed
- 300 Multiple Choices
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 302 Moved Temporarily
- 305 Use Proxy
- 380 Alternative Service
- 400 Bad Request
- 401 Unauthorized (Used only by registrars or user agents. Proxies should use proxy authorization 407)
- 402 Payment Required (Reserved for future use)
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found (User not found)
- 405 Method Not Allowed
- 406 Not Acceptable
- 407 Proxy Authentication Required
- 408 Request Timeout (Couldn’t find the user in time)
- 409 Conflict
- 410 Gone (The user existed once, but is not available here any more.)
- 412 Conditional Request Failed
- 413 Request Entity Too Large
- 414 Request-URI Too Long
- 415 Unsupported Media Type
- 416 Unsupported URI Scheme
- 417 Unknown Resource-Priority
- 420 Bad Extension (Bad SIP Protocol Extension used, not understood by the server)
- 421 Extension Required
- 422 Session Interval Too Small
- 423 Interval Too Brief
- 424 Bad Location Information
- 428 Use Identity Header
- 429 Provide Referrer Identity
- 433 Anonymity Disallowed
- 436 Bad Identity-Info
- 437 Unsupported Certificate
- 438 Invalid Identity Header
- 480 Temporarily Unavailable
- 481 Call/Transaction Does Not Exist
- 482 Loop Detected
- 483 Too Many Hops
- 484 Address Incomplete
- 485 Ambiguous
- 486 Busy Here
- 487 Request Terminated
- 488 Not Acceptable Here
- 489 Bad Event
- 491 Request Pending
- 493 Undecipherable (Could not decrypt S/MIME body part)
- 494 Security Agreement Required
Server Failure Responses
- 500 Server Internal Error
- 501 Not Implemented: The SIP request method is not implemented here
- 502 Bad Gateway
- 503 Service Unavailable
- 504 Server Time-out
- 505 Version Not Supported: The server does not support this version of the SIP protocol
- 513 Message Too Large
- 580 Precondition Failure
Global Failure Responses
- 600 Busy Everywhere
- 603 Decline
- 604 Does Not Exist Anywhere
- 606 Not Acceptable