On 4/14/09 1:46 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote:
> maybe discussing a concrete example makes this more clear...
>> On 4/13/09 11:59 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote:
>>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>> Now what happens should I attempt to piggyback the users.jabber.org
>>>>> connection on the jabber.org connection? jabber.org kills my stream.
>>>> Really? Why?
>>> <host-unknown/>.
>>
>> If jabber.org really does host users.jabber.org, why does it return a
>> <host-unknown/> error?
> 
> Does the machine hermes.jabber.org really host users.jabber.org?
> I think it does not - judging from behaviour. But you are the person
> with access to the configuration files :-)

No, that service is offline.

> RFC 3920 says that
> | the Receiving Server SHOULD accept subsequent <db:result/> packets (
> | e.g., validation requests sent to a subdomain or other hostname
> | serviced by the Receiving Server)
> 
> How does the originating server find out if a subdomain or hostname is
> actually serviced by the receiving server?
> 
> From the outside, how do I tell the difference between
> conference.jabber.org
> and
> users.jabber.org?
> Both have SRV records which point to hermes.jabber.org:5269
> - the machine that hosts jabber.org

Don't read too much into a misconfiguration / admin failing on the
jabber.org service.

Peter

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