[JDEV] Transport Name resolution..

[Jeremie]

Well, simply, foo.bar.com isn't assumed to mean the foo transport at
bar.com.  Any hostname in an address explicitly means that address,
there's no fudging going on there.  So #slashdot at slashnet.jabber.org would
require a host slashnet.jabber.org with etherx running there and a
transport that has "slashnet.jabber.org" as it's alias.  

The only way to reference a transport on the internet is to have a
hostname for it and etherx running on that host, and have the transport
notify etherx of it's address so the data can be routed to it.

Jer

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Thomas D. Charron wrote:

>   Guys, I have a quickie question about something I really haven't looked at quite yet..  How does jabber handle address <=> real world lookups?  Take these examples:
> 
> TwOlf at jabber.jabber.org
> Admin at jabber.org
> #slashdot at slashnet.jabber.org
> 
>     How will these address?  Here's what I'm gathering:
> 
> Namespace is per address, aka, Jabber.org means send it to etherx at jabber.org.  You can also append a transport at the top level, Aka: TwOlf at jabber.jabber.org would specifically route it to the transport named 'Jabber' at jabber.org.  Likewise with #slashdot at slashnet.jabber.org, except to the slashnet transport at jabber.org..  Now here's the doozie..  How does it determine this.  Here's my case:
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>     I have a domain, leagion.tiac.net.  My machine IS leagion.tiac.net, so my Jabber addy would be twolf at leagion.tiac.net.  How does jabber know NOT to route it to the leagion transport on tiac.net, but to the etherx at leagion.tiac.net.  Likewise, would twolf at jabber.leagion.tiac.net resolve corrently?
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>     I'm about to borrow some more in the source, but it occured to me as I was thinkin..
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