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

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com>wrote:

> 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)
>

Confirmed on my end as well.


>
> 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.
>

This might get fixed by doing a forwarders for DNS. I have to do this when I
use the XS on campus.
http://www.mail-archive.com/server-devel@lists.laptop.org/msg02381.html

Sameer



>
> 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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