I do not use the -h switch. I do have the following in jabber.xml as an element in the <service id="sessions"> element:
<host>goof.com</host> -matt On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Justin Georgeson wrote: > No, the receiving server does a dns lookup of the hostname given to find > the ip address to contact for verification. When you start jabber, do > you give it a -h flag? If so that value needs to resolve, via DNS to the > ip of your nat. If not, use the value of the <host> tag right after the > start of the <service id="sessions"> tag in jabber.xml. From what you > have said so far, you should be using goof.com as the <host>/-h value. > > matthew c. mead wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:58:51PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > >>>Yeah, I found that one out by trying. I still don't see what's > >>>going wrong. > >>> > >>>Does dialback require that the ip address specified by the A > >>>record for the server name have a PTR which points back to the > >>>server name? > >> > > > >>No you do not need a PTR but the domain your server is claiming to be needs > >>to point to the machine you are trying to use. > > > > > > I have an A record for goof.com that points to a NAT box. That > > box forwards packets on the jabber ports to a box on my internal > > network that runs the jabber server. > > > > I do not have a PTR record for the ip address that points to the > > canonical name "goof.com." > > > > Given this, I can't figure out what's wrong. Does the dialback > > code pass the IP address of the interface to which it is bound to > > the remote server? If so, this could be the problem - in my > > case, it would be passing the internal ip address, rather than > > the external. > > > > Thanks for helping me eliminate the worry of needing a PTR > > record. My guess is what I've described above is happening. > > > > > > > > -matt > > > > -- > Justin Georgeson > UnBound Technologies, Inc. > http://www.unboundtech.com > Main 713.329.9330 > Fax 713.460.4051 > Mobile 512.789.1962 > > 5295 Hollister Road > Houston, TX 77040 > Real Applications using Real Wireless Intelligence(tm) > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > -- matthew c. mead http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
