[Standards] updated STUN discovery proposal

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Matt Tucker wrote:
> Peter, 
> 
>> For that matter, why not encourage people to use the SRV 
>> lookups that have been defined for discovery of STUN servers 
>> and not try to do everything over XMPP?
> 
> SRV lookups should probably be tried first. The problem is a practical
> one only:
> 
>  1) Many hosting companies don't support setting SRV records.
>  2) The person setting up the XMPP server is often not the person with
> control of DNS. Making DNS changes at a large company (for example) can
> be like pulling teeth.
> 
> So, I think it's a good idea for us to serve up STUN servers via XMPP as
> an alternative. But we should keep it as simple as possible. Maybe
> there's a requirement to make STUN servers change all the time... I just
> haven't heard it yet?

Chris Mullins provided his reasoning for using a well-known pubsub node 
here:

http://www.jabber.org/muc-logs/council@conference.jabber.org/2007-04-10.html#12:26:02

"STUN servers will change all the time" was not among his reasons. But 
he can defend his reasoning better than I can...

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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