[JDEV] Re: Help with setting up Jabber server on Red Hat

[Kurt D. Starsinic]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 05:21:23PM +0800, Patrick Quek wrote:
> Thanks for the replies from Steve Grasso, Ryan Eatmon, Eliot Landrum and 
> Thomas Charron.
> 
> My server IP is 192.168.0.3 (thanks to Eliot for pointing out my typo) and 
> my client IP is 192.168.0.55.
> 
> I have made changes to jserver.xml to include both the hostname and IP of 
> the RedHat machine and attempted to connect from WinJab by use of hostname 
> instead of IP address.
> 
> The strange thing is that whenever I attempt to connect using WinJab with 
> the hostname of the Jabber server (redsnapper - I made sure I can ping it 
> from my WinJab machine), i obtain the following results:
> 
> WinJab:
>          Attempting to Connect to redsnapper...
>          Disconnected from Server!
> 
> jserver.xml:
>          Wed Aug  9 17:01:40 2000  warn/etherx error 'Interrupted system 
> call' reading from socket '192.168.0.55'
> 
> If I attempt to connect from WinJab using IP address of server 
> (192.168.0.3), there are no message is generated in jserver.xml but WinJab 
> still complains with:
> 
> WinJab:
>          Attempting to Connect to redsnapper...
>          Disconnected from Server!
> 
> I have no problem connecting to external servers (eg. jabber.org).
> 
> Here is a snippet from my jserver.xml which may be of use:
> 
>    <names>
>      <default>redsnapper</default>
>      <!-- You may have alises for this server, these are NOT virtual hosts,
>           only use these for migrating from an old server name or for 
> *receive only* on an alternate name
>        <alias>old.host.net</alias>
>      -->
>    </names>

    Do you mean <alias> or <alt>?  Where did you find documentation for
<alias>?

    Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar at orientation.com) ---------- Senior Network Engineer *
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