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

[Deds Castillo]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, Joshua N Pritikin 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)

I can replicate this issue as well.  What currently works for me on 
0.6d2 is to turn off ejabberd in the SysV scripts and just start 
ejabberd manually using ejabberdctl start.  Of course this doesn't 
give me the nifty stuff like the autoconfiguration/detection which 
init.d/ejabberd provides.  So it must be something in the way ejabberd 
is started in the SysV script?

> 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.