[Server-devel] ejabberd and DNS hurdles (was Re: moodle howto?)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:24:05PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Then I think around the time you looked at the instructions the
> DNS configuration steps were all messed up.
> 
> Daniel Drake just did a major cleanup of that. Maybe it'd be a good
> idea to retry from the start with the better instructions.

Today I installed 0.6d2 from scratch. I noticed a few problems:

1. "Basic ejabberd Configuration" went smoothly. However, I got stuck in 
"Setup Shared Roster Groups for ejabberd." ejabberd is not listening on 
port 5280:

[root at schoolserver etc]# ejabberdctl status
Node ejabberd at schoolserver is started. Status: started
ejabberd is running
[root at schoolserver etc]# netstat -n -l | grep 5280    # (nothing)

2. Similar to my previous report, there is some DNS dysfunction. I can 
ping external sites (e.g. laptop.org) from the schoolserver. I can ssh 
to the schoolserver from my laptop. However, I cannot ping external 
sites from my laptop.

I am using a USB EV-DO CDMA adapter to connect to the Internet. When it
connects, it creates a ppp0 interface. Since eth0 is not my uplink, I
ran xs-swapnics once and my local wireless router (WRT54GL) is now
showing up as eth1.

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