When an INVITE receives a non-2xx final response, the ACK to that response is part of the same INVITE transaction.

Checked 2026-09-23

If the request is INVITE and the final response is a non-2xx, the transaction also includes an ACK to the response.
Vendor
IETF
Product
SIP
Subsystem
transactions
Deployment
multi-tenant, on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
RFC 3261 (June 2002)
Checked
2026-09-23

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 23). SIP trace capture and ladder analysis: source note sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn,
  title  = {SIP trace capture and ladder analysis: source note sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn},
  note   = {Source note sip-trace-analysis-ack-non-2xx-in-txn, checked 2026-09-23}
}

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