[JDEV] jabber prepended to domain name

[temas]

Jens Alfke wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at 10:19 AM, Robert Temple wrote:
>
>     I'm actually more interested in the server-to-server part of
>     this.  If we have a server running at jabber.foo.org, then I won't
>     be able to talk to that person from my jabber.com account.  When I
>     add _ person at foo.org_ to my roster using my jabber.com account,
>     jabber.com tries to make a server-to-server connection to foo.org.
>
>
> Doesn't the server already do the SRV lookup when connecting to 
> another server? I am not familiar with its innards, but the overview 
> documents at jabber.org describe say that it does.
>
> Perhaps your local DNS is not set up with an SRV record mapping 
> foo.org to jabber.foo.org?
>
> —Jens

Yeah, the current server definately does the SRV lookup, unless it's 
somehow broken (haven't heard that though).

--temas