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<DIV><SPAN class=128012120-23052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
actually no very little about DNS. So I don't know what a SRV record
is.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jens Alfke
[mailto:jens@mac.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:32
AM<BR><B>To:</B> jdev@jabber.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [JDEV] jabber
prepended to domain name<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
<P>On Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at 10:19 AM, Robert Temple wrote: </P><BR>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm actually more interested in the
server-to-server part of this. If we have a server running at
jabber.foo.org, then I won't be able to talk to that person from my jabber.com
account. When I add</FONT><U></U><U> <FONT face=Arial color=#1919ff
size=2>person@foo.org</FONT></U><U></U><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>
to my roster using my jabber.com account, jabber.com tries to make a
server-to-server connection to foo.org.</FONT> </P><BR>
<P>Doesn't the server already do the SRV lookup when connecting to another
server? I am not familiar with its innards, but the overview documents at
jabber.org describe say that it does. </P><BR>
<P>Perhaps your local DNS is not set up with an SRV record mapping foo.org to
jabber.foo.org? </P><BR>
<P><FONT face="Marker Felt" color=#005101
size=7>—Jens</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>