Did my message about forwarding ports 5222 and 5269 make it to the mailing list?
- Dave "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" wrote: > > > I would like to be able to set up jabber in my company so that people can > > have a jabber ID of [EMAIL PROTECTED], rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > when we run a server on jabber.sub.company.com. Is there a way to do that, > > or a plan to be able to do that at some point? It's conceivable that I'd > > be able to run a small redirection server on the machine called company.com, > > but it has to use very little resources because the primary purpose of that > > machine is web service. In fact, I'm thinking I might want to set up > > the redirection server to lookup up IDs in a database and redirect people > > to different servers for load balancing. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Dave Dykstra > > Hi, > > How about using SRV record for the domain? The Jabber server should > recognize the SRV record (it's supported it since 1.2 afaik) and > connect to wherever it points to for S2S. You'd need to add something > like this to the DNS zone for company.com: > > _jabber._tcp IN SRV 30 30 5269 jabber.sub.company.com > > The problem with this is getting the clients to connect to the correct > server, if you just set them to connect to "jabber.sub.company.com" then > they will send "jabber.sub.company.com" as the to attribute of the > opening <stream:stream> tag which makes the server look for > "jabber.sub.company.com" in the spool directory. > > The only solution I can see to this is for clients to support > connecting to an address which is different from the server name. In > the client I am developing I allow the user to specify the name of the > server in the username field by entering it in the form: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone have any other ideas on how to do this? > > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483 > Rat Software > http://www.rat-software.com/ > Please leave quoted text in place when replying > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
