Matthias Wimmer wrote: >Hi Dave! > >On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:33:49PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > >>>It would be no problem to add that to gabber. The only thing is that SRV >>>records are only defined for s2s at the moment ... not for c2s. >>> >>Ok, what would it take to define them? >> > >A sort of an agreement ... a standard for that. > >>Also, that still doesn't completely solve the problem, as Thomas Parslow >>pointed out; I think it would also take a couple more client changes. The >>c2s SRV record in the DNS could allow a client to automatically discover >>its server name, >> > >No ... you don't discover the server name. That you have to know already >to make the SRV request. The SRV record only gives priority, host and >port for the connection. >E.g. if _jabber._tcp.company.com directs you to im.company.com the >server name is company.com ... only the host it runs on is >im.company.com. >We just would have to define the "prefix". Somethink like >"_jabberc2s._tcp". >BTW: Why are the services prefixed by an underscore? > see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2052.txt . Since we now have jabber-client and jabber-server defined by the IANA, it should be _jabber-client._tcp.example.com
-David Waite _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
