[Juser] Jabber server and client foo

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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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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