I've still not been able to get this going. Is anyone else out there running a jabber server behind a nat firewall and getting s2s to work with success?
Thanks. -matt On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:20PM -0400, matthew c. mead wrote: > 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 > -- matthew c. mead http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
