Hi gang: In the recent jabber log I saw Joe/Jay/Travis mentioning that there were some troubles again with `[email protected]' chat room, and that Joe may be willing to look at installing our own jabber server at SLAC. I caught only parts of the conversation, so:
1) What kind of troubles these were? The old troubles with intermittent service from jabber.org? Or auto-connection troubles related to password protection? Or something else, more fundamental? 2) As I mentioned some time ago, we were planning to have a jabber server here at CERN shared with the Indico app (and possibly with ATLAS groups etc, many are interested). An experimental jabber service is now available, so we can give it a try to see whether it performs better. Currently, (i) the service is still open to inside-CERN only, so if you access it from outside of CERN, you will need to set up an ssh tunnel for the time being; (ii) you have to use your regular CERN account credentials, it does not accept any other identity for the time being. E.g. for Pidgin you can use the following settings: Username: jdoe Domain: jabber.cern.ch Password: <regular jdoe's CERN account password> [x] Require SSL/TLS Connect server: jabber.cern.ch Connect port: 5222 Chat room: [email protected] 3) The box is run by our group, and we can set up things later according to what we always wanted, e.g. central chat room logging, e.g. use it for micro-tweeting about daily progress, etc. Currently this is a test service only, so let's give it some stress testing first... Best regards -- Tibor Simko
