[jadmin] Re: Ejabberd + Proxy65

[Magnus Henoch]

"Matt Gibson" <diwelf at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I am running Ejabberd CVS from about 3 days ago. I haven't tried 1.1.2
> yet, but will be later this weekend.
>
> My question is - does anyone have proxy65 working on a "current" linux box?

Not me, but I'll do what I can to help...

> Here are the versions of software I am using:
>
[...]
> - proxy65 (both release from 2003, and what's in the cvs from 10
> months ago approx)

The released version is known not to work; use the CVS version.

> Here is what I did. I opened up port 7777 on the firewall.

Is that a NAT firewall?  If so, read on below...

> Then I made the tap file for proxy65 with this line:
> mktap proxy65 --jid=proxy --secret=secret --rhost=127.0.0.1
> --rport=6000 --proxyips=64.246.XXX.XXX:7777
>
> I also tried:
> mktap proxy65 --jid=proxy.chat.mydomain.com --secret=secret
> --rhost=127.0.0.1 --rport=6000 --proxyips=64.246.XXX.XXX:7777

The --proxyips option probably doesn't do what you think it does - it
makes proxy65 attempt to listen on the specified addresses, which will
not work if the specified address is the external address of a host
behind NAT.  You should have gotten an error message about that.

[...]

> The client I am using is PSI CVS, and I set it in "account settings"
> for "file transfer proxy". I did not set the "proxy and port" options
> in the "psi options" as that seems to be systemwide setting, not per
> server setting.

Yes, "file transfer proxy" is the option you want.

> The closest we have gotten to working, is on my end the file says it's
> tranferred, but at the other end psi says it could not connect to
> remote host.

Are you trying this on a local network, or through NAT?  Which client
is on which side?

The ejabberd proxy65 module might be interesting:
http://www.jabber.ru/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25

-- 
Magnus
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