On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:13:26PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
You might have already considered this, but I wanted to make sure you know about this option:So in our use case we can't get any entries into the existing DNS.
"The existing DNS [server]" doesn't (necessarily) mean "the current school-owned/operated DNS server". You can use whatever domain you have (sufficient) control over, e.g. set up a subdomain of solutiongrove.com or even just register your own one. The technical stuff (setting up / operating a DNS) won't be an issue, we can help you out on that. I have experience administering djbdns based servers, bernie probably is able to help out in case you choose to go with BIND. If you don't care about the domain name I could even set you up on one of my domains (about 10 minutes if you catch me on IRC, within 24h via EMail).
I'll distinguish between two cases. 1. externally hosted serverYou'll just need a DNS record (SRV + A/AAAA specifically) under some valid domain name. Should be really easy to set up, depending on what domain you choose / who owns and operates it. For the "register your own" case: AFAIK most registrars provide some basic DNS service that should suffice (mine does and is quite cheap). You can also run your own DNS server on the same machine as the Jabber server (it needs to have a public IP address anyway for Jabber).
2. server located at schoolThis is more interesting and depends a lot on what infrastructure there is at school, both to support and to interfere with your stuff (or get disturbed by it). If you'd like to do this, please give as much information as possible about the networking environment.
Please note that I'm talking only about the Jabber server. I don't know if the XS needs some special setup (e.g. name only "schoolserver" instead of "schoolserver.whatever.tld") for backups etc. to work. Maybe Martin follows up to answer that...
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