[jdev] Discovering the Federation.

[Maciek Niedzielski]

Daniel Noll 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!
> 
> Better not recurse forever, or you'll meet something called a spider trap:
>   query bogus1.example.com, tells you about bogus2.example.com
>   query bogus2.example.com, tells you about bogus3.example.com
>   ...

I thought the idea was:
if your full domain is: host1.some.network.example.com, then:
1. check if host1.some.network.example.com is a jabber server
2. else check if some.network.example.com is a jabber server
3. else check if network.example.com is a jabber server
4. else check if example.com is a jabber server

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