[Juser] Jabber server and client foo
Peter Saint-Andre
stpeter at jabber.org
Thu Dec 5 13:53:39 CST 2002
Hrm. Sorry I've been spacing out the JADMIN list lately, but I *know* that
some jokers on there are running jabberd on *BSD. I'll poke 'em.
Peter
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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jim Arnold wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I posted the message below to the jadmin list and didn't get any help... :(
> Maybe I need to break it up to be more manageable.
>
> --Jim
>
> >As mentioned, the JADMIN list is the best place for this message. Lots of
> >folks are running jabberd on *BSD so there might be something small that
> >you're missing. You can sign up for the JADMIN list here:
> >
> >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jadmin/
> >
> >Peter
> >
> >--
> >Peter Saint-Andre
> >Jabber Software Foundation
> >http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
> >
> >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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