Conversation lifetime after close

Given that the conversation states are as follows: (Thanks Rushi!)

Event Initiator Endpoint state Target Endpoint state

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BEGIN DIALOG SO --
from Initiator
to Target

SEND message(s) CO --
from Initiator
to Target

Target receives a fragment CO SI
of the first message sent
or receives out of order
message

Target received entire CO CO
first message

END conversation at CO DO
target

Initiator receives EndDialog DI DO
message from target

Target receives ACK for the DI CD
EndDialog message sent

END conversation at CD CD
Initiator

When does the 30 minute timer start for clearing the conversation from the sys.conversation_handles table? Is it the same for both sides (initiator and Target) ie, the end conversation at the Initiator. I guess it must be just in case a resend is necessary.

Gary

Looks like the fire-and-forget problem. Please look at this thread:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=758562&SiteID=1

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Thanks for the article Rushi,and special thanks for Roger's help. I found out that I did not have a route defined back to the initiator. Things are much better today.

Thanks a heap for the help!

Gary