On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Tony
Graziano<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> "Peter Fowler" <[email protected]> 07/14/09 4:38 PM >>>
> Since Enterprise IM (EIM) is a growing segment, how do others solve this
> problem?
>
> Do the OpenFire folks have a recommendation?
>
> Peter



>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M.
> Ranganathan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:53 PM
> To: sipX developers
> Subject: [sipX-dev] Openfire S2S federation : Deployment scenarios
>
> To support S2S federation we need to support the ability for other
> servers to connect to our openfire server.
>
> Unlike sipx, openfire is not able to have domain aliases, thus making it
> difficult to deploy behind a NAT + firewall. Bob Joly and I discussed
> two possible solutions:
>
> In the case where openfire is deployed on a NATTed address, we would
> need to utilize split-dns so that xmpp requests received by openfire can
> be recognized as belonging to the openfire domain.
>
> The alternative would be to place openfire on a public address ( without
> NAT/Firewall ).
>
> I will investigate if it is possible to add a plugin to support a
> "domain alias" for openfire.
>
> Any comments?  Any others approaches?
>
> Thanks
>
> **</[email protected]>
> What if your IM is already built and hosted elsewhere?
>

Thats the point behind federation. You should be able to federate with
that account.

Federation works if you run openfire on a public IP address. The trick
is to come up with a good solution for the case where openfire runs on
a private address beihind a NAT + firewall.   Some experimentation is
needed.

Ranga


-- 
M. Ranganathan
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