Support Requests item #1486923, was opened at 2006-05-11 15:37 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200235&aid=1486923&group_id=235 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jason B. Sjobeck (sjobeck) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: fall-back to TXT records when SRV records not present Initial Comment: Does any one have $0.02 to input for the rest of us about the falling-back to TXT records in DNS when SRV records are not present. Where I happened upon this is in the set-up of a client's in-house jabber server, and configuring GAIM for users on the LAN, versus configuring GAIM for user on the WAN. Users on the LAN hit the internal name server, find the SRV records & are correctly re-directed to the jabber server. Those on the WAN, hit the name server (which doesnt support SRV records at this moment (but hopefully soon)) and do not fall-back to the TXT records, and therefor are not redirected to the jabber server, and fail to log-in. The reason I ask about this, or for this, if others agree, is that what I just described is how SPF works, seemingly with great success. Now I wont try to speak out of school about the RFC surrounding the enormous topic of DNS, but I will say that the real world (I hate that phrase sometimes) is full of sysadmin's who do not understand what they are doing, especiually with DNS (which is deceptively complex) and will be very slow to implement their own abber servers if they can not let their users loose in the big scary world with the confidence that theyre connected just fine. I take the time to mention all this for two reasons, I want to see GAIM get huge & I want jabber to kill-off all the other inferior protocols. Any and all input apprecaited. Cheers. xmpp:jason@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200235&aid=1486923&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Gaim-support mailing list Gaim-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-support
