[Juser] Jabber server and client foo
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at jabber.org
Mon Dec 2 12:54:09 CST 2002
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Peter
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Peter Saint-Andre
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jim Arnold wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been playing with Jabber in hopes of moving our company off of
> Yahoo IM. Over the past few days I've been playing with the Jabber
> server installed on a FreeBSD 4.7 stable box behind our firewall. My
> first impression is that Jabber clients have a *long* way to go. The
> server was pretty easy to set up. But I do have a few questions....
>
> FreeBSD runs jabberd out of a file in rc.d. I changed the HOSTNAME
> variable in that file to 192.168.0.10, the dummy IP assigned to that
> box behind our firewall.
>
> The note on the jabber.xml file states:
>
> "Currently on FreeBSD jabberd is started with the -h option from
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh. You'll need to modify this before
> changing below."
>
> OK, that's a little vague.... After playing around I came up with
> this for that line in jabberd.sh. :
> su -f -m ${USER} -c "jabberd -B ${HOSTNAME} -c ${PREFIX}/etc/jabber.xml" ;;
>
> I then went through the Jabber Admin Guide successfully, setting up a
> few test accounts from the telnet session on the box and a few via a
> Jabber client on my OS X box on the network.
>
> My first huge glitch came while trying to chat with myself. I fired
> up Exodus on a windoze box and TVJab on the Mac. Everything I sent to
> the Mac from the Windows box showed up fine in a chat window.
> Anything I sent back to the Windows box in response would not appear
> on the Windows box in Exodus.
>
> I tried the same thing at home the night before on the same type of
> setup. The jabber server was set up and running on a FreeBSD box.
> That same box was installed with the PSI jabber client. The mac was
> using JabberFOX or Nitro. This time anything I sent to the FreeBSD
> jabber client from the mac would not show up. Anything I sent from
> the FreeBSD box to the mac jabber client(s) would show up perfectly.
>
> What is going on? This doesn't exactly boost my confidence.
>
> Next I would like to get this working from behind the firewall out to
> the net. The docs mentions this:
> <host>internal-jabber-hostname<host><host>external-nat-hostname<host>
>
> shouldn't there be a slash (/) in the second set of host parameters like this?
> <host>internal-jabber-hostname</host><host>external-nat-hostname</host>
>
> The box I would run this on does not have a FQDN, just an IP number.
> Assuming I open the firewall correctly, would I set it up like this:?
> <host>192.168.0.10</host><host>12.100.23.254</host>
> Would I have to change anything else in jabber.xml? If I add the
> above line I get this error:
>
> hogan# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh start
> 192.168.0.10: not found
> jabberd hogan# 20021122T22:57:09: [notice] (-internal): initializing server
>
> On my firewall I am forwarding packets for 5222 to the 192.168.0.10 box.
>
> Thanks for any help or insights you can provide. I'm not find much help online.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
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