[JDEV] DNS problems on Cygwin with Jabber 1.4.2 - can't add remote buddies

[Steven Brown]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org] On 
> Behalf Of Steven Brown
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 5:37 PM
> To: Jdev
> Subject: [JDEV] DNS problems on Cygwin with Jabber 1.4.2 - 
> can't add remote buddies
> 
> 
> 
> I'm having a problem with Jabber on Cygwin that should be 
> pretty easy to sort out, as either everyone's having the same 
> problem, or I'm missing an obvious step.  DNS queries always 
> fail (XP + w2k3), so I can't add non-local buddies.  Btw, 
> jabadns.exe is in the path, the server looks fine otherwise, 
> and I have it running problem free on FreeBSD and Linux. Does 
> anyone know of a fix for this problem?  If not, could you 
> guess what areas of the dnsrv code I should look at to save 
> me a bit of debug time?
> 
> Example error: "20030728T00:23:58: [notice] (jabber.org): 
> bouncing a packet to swbrown at jabber.org from 
> swbrown at fictition.variadic.org: Hostname Resolution Timeout".

Some additional info, the relevant dnsrv portion of Jabber Cygwin
failing to resolve update.jabber.org:

Sun Jul 27 18:02:48 2003  dnsrv.c:333 dnsrv: Creating lookup request
queue for update.jabber.org
Sun Jul 27 18:02:48 2003  dnsrv.c:342 dnsrv: Transmitting lookup
request: <host>update.jabber.org</host>
Sun Jul 27 18:02:49 2003  (null) DNSRV CHILD: starting
Sun Jul 27 18:02:49 2003  (null) DNSRV CHILD: Read from buffer:
<host>update.jabber.org</host><stream><resend
service="_jabber._tcp">s2s</resend><resend>s2s</resend>
Sun Jul 27 18:02:49 2003  (null) DNSRV CHILD: xstream died
Sun Jul 27 18:02:49 2003  (null) DNSRV CHILD: out of loop.. exiting
normal

"xstream died" sounds unhappy; it's happening in dnsrv_coprocess.c, but
I haven't looked into it much further yet.  For comparison, the Linux
version of the same:

Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:264 dnsrv: Creating lookup request
queue for update.jabber.org
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:273 dnsrv: Transmitting lookup
request: <host>update.jabber.org</host>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:144 DNSRV CHILD: starting
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:159 DNSRV CHILD: Read from buffer:
<stream>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:159 DNSRV CHILD: Read from buffer:
<host>update.jabber.org</host>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:112 dnsrv: Recv'd lookup request for
update.jabber.org
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  srv_resolv.c:112 srv: SRV resolution of
_jabber._tcp.update.jabber.org
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  srv_resolv.c:99 srv: Standard resolution of
update.jabber.org
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:123 Resolved
update.jabber.org((null)): 208.245.212.108	resend to:s2s
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dnsrv.c:338 incoming resolution: <host
ip='208.245.212.108' to='s2s'>update.jabber.org</host>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  deliver.c:474 DELIVER 4:s2s <route to='s2s'
ip='208.245.212.108'><presence from='activecampus2.ucsd.edu'
to='jsm at update.jabber.org/1.4.2'/></route>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  deliver.c:678 delivering to instance 's2s'
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dialback_out.c:192 dbout
packet[208.245.212.108]: <presence from='activecampus2.ucsd.edu'
to='jsm at update.jabber.org/1.4.2'/>
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dialback_out.c:212 outgoing packet with key
update.jabber.org/activecampus2.ucsd.edu and located existing 0
Sun Jul 27 18:30:16 2003  dialback_out.c:99 Attempting to connect to
update.jabber.org/activecampus2.ucsd.edu at 208.245.212.108