[jdev] Discovering the Federation.
Maciek Niedzielski
machekku at uaznia.net
Tue Aug 29 21:59:32 CDT 2006
Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> Instead of going to that mythical well-connected server (which really
> can only be jabber.org in this context), I've got an idea for what
> could be done first. It's very client-intelligence-dependent but
> makes sense to me.
>
> 1. SRV query to the child domain to which the client computer belongs.
> e.g. americas.hp.net or hsd1.ga.comcast.net.
> 2. Recurse downwards till you canna recurse anymore, captain!
>
> In theory this could give you your company's or ISP's XMPP server.
> Pretty good place to start!
There are so many servers in jabber.example.com domains, that you'd also
have to check jabber.something on every step of this recursive checking.
--
Maciek A: It's against natural order of reading.
xmpp:machekku at uaznia.net Q: Why is that?
xmpp:machekku at chrome.pl A: People answering above quoted text.
Q: What's the most annoying on newsgroups?
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