[jdev] Discovering the Federation.

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 8/29/06, Maciek Niedzielski <machekku at uaznia.net> wrote:
> 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

That's sort of, but not exactly what I was thinking when I wrote the
word "recurse".  You wouldn't actually check the domain itself to see
if it is a jabber server, you would query DNS for the XMPP SRV record
for the domain in question, going up the chain until you get to the
TLD.


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