[JDEV] jabber prepended to domain name

David Waite dwaite at jabber.com
Wed May 23 13:01:02 CDT 2001


I still haven't discovered any way to do SRV lookups from Java; anyone know of
a way?

-David Waite

Jens Alfke wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at 07:50 AM, Marco Romeny wrote:
>
> >   said it before, the client can still not find the server without using
> > MX/SRV-lookup.
> >
> >
> ...unless the user explicitly tells it what server to connect to, probably
> by entering the server name in a preference dialog. Which is exactly what
> people are used to from email clients: my address may be "jens at mac.com" but
> I have to enter "mail.mac.com" as the IMAP host in my account setup dialog.
>
> But I agree it's nice for the client to be able to determine this itself. Do
> any of the existing open-source Unix clients do this SRV lookup, so I can
> look up [sic] how it's done?
>
> -Jens




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