[jadmin] Re: Ejabberd + Proxy65

[Matt Gibson]

Hi Magnus, Thanks for the quick reply.

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On 29/09/06, Magnus Henoch <mange at freemail.hu> wrote:
> "Matt Gibson" <diwelf at gmail.com> writes:
> > - 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.

I am using the version found here :
http://jabberstudio.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvs/proxy65/

Is that correct?


>
> > Here is what I did. I opened up port 7777 on the firewall.
>
> Is that a NAT firewall?  If so, read on below...

Yup, it's actually on a VSERVER. I have the HOST system running the
firewall, and the Virtual Host is behind it.


>
> > 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.

I also tried my internal ip (10.0.0.19) and 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 as this option
it did not work there either.



>
> > 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?

[me] --> [internet] -> [proxy65] -> [ejabber server] - [proxy65] ->
[internet] -> [user]

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

I also tried this, but it didn't seem to apply to either CVS or 1.1.1.
I will try it with 1.1.2 after the weekend.

Thanks!
Matt Gibson