[JDEV] Server without involving jabber.org?

[Dennis Noordsij]

On Tuesday 23 January 2001 18:55, Keith Barrett wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I'm trying to set up a personal jabber server for testing/playing.
> I want this to be a completely self-contained situation, but everytime
> I start jabberd (with a -h option), I get the message:
>
>   We were told by update.jabber.org that our sending name XXXXX is invalid,
>   either we tried using that name improperly or dns does not resolve to us
>
> (note that XXXX represents my hostname).
>
> It is correct that jabber.org's dns system does not know about that system,
> but why is jabber.org invovled at all? I can't find anything in the
> XML file that causes this. How do I completely separate myself from
> jabber.org and existing internet servers?


What happens is this, your clients (for example Winjab) send a presence 
message to update.jabber.org to see if any new versions are available. Yes, 
without asking it sends a presence packet to update.jabber.org. Yes, this is 
stupid and annoying behaviour. 

Your system is running fine without jabber.org but because of this presence 
message your system tries to contact update.jabber.org; your hostname / IP do 
not resolve in DNS (for example you use a private hostname/IP for your 
server) and that is why the dial-back sequence between your server and 
update.jabber.org fails (gets rejected by update.jabber.org)

Blame the clients for not making this option configurable.

Oh well, at least the problem is not  on your side :-) Just ignore the errors.

Regards,
Dennis