No, the receiving server does a dns lookup of the hostname given to find the ip address to contact for verification. When you start jabber, do you give it a -h flag? If so that value needs to resolve, via DNS to the ip of your nat. If not, use the value of the <host> tag right after the start of the <service id="sessions"> tag in jabber.xml. From what you have said so far, you should be using goof.com as the <host>/-h value.
matthew c. mead wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:58:51PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > >>>Yeah, I found that one out by trying. I still don't see what's >>>going wrong. >>> >>>Does dialback require that the ip address specified by the A >>>record for the server name have a PTR which points back to the >>>server name? >> > >>No you do not need a PTR but the domain your server is claiming to be needs >>to point to the machine you are trying to use. > > > I have an A record for goof.com that points to a NAT box. That > box forwards packets on the jabber ports to a box on my internal > network that runs the jabber server. > > I do not have a PTR record for the ip address that points to the > canonical name "goof.com." > > Given this, I can't figure out what's wrong. Does the dialback > code pass the IP address of the interface to which it is bound to > the remote server? If so, this could be the problem - in my > case, it would be passing the internal ip address, rather than > the external. > > Thanks for helping me eliminate the worry of needing a PTR > record. My guess is what I've described above is happening. > > > > -matt > -- Justin Georgeson UnBound Technologies, Inc. http://www.unboundtech.com Main 713.329.9330 Fax 713.460.4051 Mobile 512.789.1962 5295 Hollister Road Houston, TX 77040 Real Applications using Real Wireless Intelligence(tm) _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
