[JDEV] Jabber server redirection

[dave at dave.tj]

If people want to use non-user-friendly operating systems, that's their
own choice.  To use the existance of non-user-friendly operating systems
as an excuse to fool around with the Jabber server (or worse - with the
protocol itself!) is rather insane, though, IMHO.

 - Dave


Marco Romeny wrote:
> 
> 
>  probably none, but ask a linux-tjomme (svenska for dude) to redirect
> a port and it's done in five minutes, ask a Win sysadmin and the probability
> that you get the question 'what's a port' is somewhat high. It shouldn't be
> necessary to be a developer to just set up a jabberserver on another machine
> than your webserver. I do consider myself pretty handy with windows, but
> I actually don't know how to redirect ports in a microsoft environment
> (unless
> I go buy some obscure little softwarie-thingie from XX).
>  My vision of jabber is that it not only should fit as a operator-level
> service, but
> also for SOHO-use where people might not be that skilled...
> 
>   /m
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dave at dave.tj>
> To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 23:01
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Jabber server redirection
> 
> 
> > What systems don't have libraries for forwarding TCP ports???
> >
> >  - Dave
> >
> >
> > Marco Romeny wrote:
> > >
> > >  if - that is feasible of course. easy on linux, but the rest?
> > > what about support in the major client-libraries out there
> > > for lookup of SVR? does anyone know?
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dave" <dave at dave2.dave.tj>
> > > To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 14:34
> > > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Jabber server redirection
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm starting to feel like that Aflack duck that nobody listens to.
> > > > You can simply forward ports 5222 and 5269 from company.com to
> > > > jabber.sub.company.com and everything will work like a charm :-)
> > > >
> > > > Dave Cohen <dave at dave.tj>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > You have tos et up an mx record of company.com pointing to
> > > > > > jabber.su.company.com
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't think MX records are supported by Jabber any more, they were
> > > > > replaced by SRV records.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
> > > > > E-Mail/Jabber: tom at almostobsolete.net
> > > > > ICQ: 26359483
> > > > >
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