Actually this what the SRV record in DNS was invented for. And I believe at least jabberd supports that for looking up Jabber servers.
Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: [JDEV] JX DNS Record? > I'm new to the Jabber architecture and have a quick question about the > long term plan for the protocol. One of the clear advantages (over > other IM systmes) seems to be user@hostname syntax for the JID. This > of course makes it possible for your email address to be your JID. In > deploying jabberd, it really begs to be loaded on the server where > shmoo.com points and there appears to be no clean way to deploy at a > different machine. We went through this years ago with email, and the > MX records for DNS were implemented to allow mail clients to find a > mail server based on more than just hostname. This makes email service > somewhat portable across machines. At any rate, I'd like to know if > some solution for this dilemma has been contemplated by the Jabber > architects, and whether standardizing on something simple like a "JX" > record in DNS would be a smart thing to do. > > Thanks, please cc me offlist as I don't follow jdev. > > pablos. > -- > Paul Holman > The Shmoo Group > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 415.420.3806 > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
