A Unified CM trunk Status Reason of local=3 means DNS resolution failed (DNS server unreachable or DNS misconfigured).

Checked 2026-09-25

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Unified Communications Manager
Subsystem
trunk status and alarms
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
as documented in 2018 tech note
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP 503 and trunk out-of-service failures: source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns,
  title  = {SIP 503 and trunk out-of-service failures: source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns},
  note   = {Source note sip-503-trunk-failures-cucm-local-3-dns, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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