[JDEV] Server 1.2 Setup questions

[Keith Minkler]

Guys...

I'm running a 1.2 (and 1.0 and 1.3) server behind a NAT firewall, on a dyndns.org IP adderss, and it works perfectly fine.

As long as you use the DNS name everywhere, it works perfectly.  You can't go around calling your server localhost, when it's foo.dyndns.org to everyone else.  Even behind my firewall, I connect to my dyndns.org Hostname, not the Internal name.  

Dialback works fine for me, even in my secluded hole in the ground server... I even run transports that I can still access while logged into jabber.org... 

Why is my situation any different than yours?  my IP changes, but I have a dyndns.org account to compensate, and jabber, and dialback works fine, BUT now i have the added security of dialback!  what could be better?

-Keith

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:54:05PM -0800, Bob Monaghan wrote:
> Another problem occurs when running servers behind a firewall with NAT,
> and/or
> port-forwarding.
> The DNS address of the visible IP address on the firewall isn't the ultimate
> destination of the XML packets. They end up going to a system that has an
> non-routable
> IP address that doesn't reflect the "real" IP address. This ultimately makes
> jabberd useless to me. I noticed that the ICQ transport (possibly others)
> relies on this as well..
> 
> :(
> 
> bob..
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Lazarus Long
> Sent: November 13, 2000 9:37 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Cc: security at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Server 1.2 Setup questions
> 
> 
> > IF YOU WANT SECURITY / SAFETY / PRIVACY, RUN YOUR OWN SERVERS.
> >
> > > invalid address. Soon (not now, as 1.0 still exists and is for the time
> > > being supported), this won't work.
> 
> 
> 
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