You can run a Jabber server with a dynamic IP. I'm doing it now. I use a dynamic domain (free) from no-ip.com. They have a utility that refreshes the IP. Works fine except for the occasional delay when a DNS update is being rolled out.
Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Magnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [JDEV] (no subject) > At 04:13 PM 1/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >Daniel MD wrote: > > > >>hello, i was wondering what is wrong with the protocol that it can't take > >>dynamic IP's ? Jabber server, thus moving Jabber closer to a > >>peer-to-peer model (currently this would require each device to have its > >>own fully qualified domain name). I really would like to implement a p2p > >>jabber network. > > So does the Internet. If you want to change that, take it up with the guys > who built it ;). > > You can probably setup the jabberd server to be called 'localhost' and make > the clients connect by IP address, why would you want to.. Every client is > a server, then who gets to be tom or john? How do you route messages with > such chaos? > > Napster et all don't work completely dynamically either, someone somewhere > controls who you are (server), and says you are johny28382, and then > figures out you want to talk to susie12 and connects the two IPs directly. > That server had to be registered in DNS (or have a fixed IP). > > Jabber isn't crippled this way. No one cares who the client's IP is, only > the server must be a known entity. I use Jabber for what is essentially P2P > communications right now (two instances of my program exchange information > over jabber), without issues. > > If you want p2p file sharing, there's other things that accomplish that > that are GPL and you can build what you like on top of them. Or use Jabber > as the server, and the 'clients' can exchange 'file list' type messages > with multiple other clients simultaneously as a result of a search. > Personally, that's over engineering an established solution in my books, > I'd grab a GPL'd p2p program, and extend it rather than kludging an IM > solution to do it. But, that's my preference. > > Jabber does exactly what its been designed to do. And is flexible enough > (with sufficient work on the developer's part) to do more. Losing the > 'authoritative' server won't make it more flexible imho :). > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
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