Nick Knight added a comment - 15/Jun/12 11:37 AM This looks like a great idea however. Looking at the source code, it doesn't really give you much more than you get already. If an Options ping fails marks it as dead. It maintains some more information - and you can make decisions for routing calls based on this. But this information would not be updated until the next registration - maybe an hour later, so any routing decision would be the same as before. This type of update would be more useful if it restored the status when it next replied. Also, I think it would have quite a large impact on the load on the SQL server, you might end up with a growing list of status='Dead' requests until as they would never be purged.