[JDEV] Delivery error when setting up for new transport

[Migs Paraz]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:50:50PM +0100, Benoit Orihuela wrote:
> what you specify in the <host> section is the jid of the service that
> will connect to jabber. this jid is then used by jabber to route
> packets sent to this jid. 

I see.  I was confused and thought it was simply a DNS hostname.

> if you set it to "localhost" : first, I'm not sure your service will
> succeed to connect to jabber becase jids will not match. second, all
> packets sent to localhost will be routed to your service ... hmm, I'm
> not really sure of what happens in this case ... when you previously
> received the 404 error, was your service connected to jabber or not ?  

My component was not yet even connected when the jabberd complained to
my gabber client.