[jdev] Discovering the Federation.

Daniel Noll daniel at noll.id.au
Tue Aug 29 22:39:23 CDT 2006


>> 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

Sure, but what if bogus1.example.com says "yes"?

Daniel


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