Instant Messaging client-server solution?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue May 24 12:37:18 EDT 2011


Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> writes:

> I thought so. One of the KDC logs said my workstation was getting an
> XMPP ticket, but then that password prompt would show up anyway. I
> figure the Openfire server isn't working in it's kerberized form because
> of the #&@! dual ISP connections on that machine, i.e. it's probably
> confused about its identity and therefore refusing to cooperate.

Ah, yeah, if there are forward/reverse DNS lookup problems, that might
explain the difficulties.

And yeah, we found this almost entirely opaque too.  When it works, it
just works, but if it doesn't work, it's remarkably difficult to get any
sort of debugging information about why.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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