Category: Features

Facebook transport for Facebook only

Post author By Roi
Post date August 5, 2010
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In the next days, weeks or months (it depends when the feature will be ready in Spectrum) we will implement white-/blacklists for our Facebook transport. After this the transport can only be used for Facebook – as it should be used. But as the Facebook transport is a “normal” XMPP transport many people use it for XMPP.

After the setup of white-/blacklists we will delete all non Facebook accounts out of the transport. Maybe we will move the non Facebook accounts to our XMPP/J2J transport, we’ll see.

So if you use our Facebook transport not for Facebook, please move to our XMPP/J2J transport.

BTW: Is there any need for a second XMPP transport as many of our users connect to more than one foreign XMPP account?

Tags Facebook, J2J, Spectrum, Transports, XMPP

Features Transports

IRC transport migrated to Spectrum

Post author By Roi
Post date June 30, 2010
3 Comments on IRC transport migrated to Spectrum

We just migrated IRC transport to Spectrum. Before it was a core feature of ejabberd, the software we use for the Jabber server itself. Spectrum has more features, so we switched.

If you experience any problems please let us know.

Tags ejabberd, Features, IRC, Transports

Downtimes Features Maintenance

Pubsub/PEP migration to MySQL complete

Post author By Roi
Post date June 1, 2010
2 Comments on Pubsub/PEP migration to MySQL complete

…and it seems to work. Sorry for the 30 minute downtime because of that.

Tags Downtimes, Features, Migration, MySQL, PEP, Pubsub

Downtimes Features Maintenance Transports

Server offline due to maintenance work this morning

Post author By Roi
Post date May 31, 2010
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The server was offline this morning because of Kernel and MySQL upgrade. It would have happened faster if the server rebooted cleanly after “shutdown -r now” which it didn’t. So we had to send someone there to reset the machine manually.

We also upgraded Spectrum to support JID escaping. If this works after our tests (there seem to be some problems with clients who don’t support the unofficial % character which is used for @) I write more about this here.

Tags Downtimes, Features, JID escaping, Maintenance, MySQL, Spectrum

Features

Moods now also work on secondary domains

Post author By Roi
Post date May 29, 2010
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We stumbled upon this by accident – moods (or to be precise: everything which Pubsub/PEP offer) did not work on secondary domains.

It works now, it was just a little configuration change. The Pubsub service subdomain (e.g. pubsub.jabber.hot-chilli.eu) has to be the same domain as the Jabber service (e.g. jabber.hot-chilli.eu), not a subdomain of the Jabber server’s primary domain (e.g. jabber.hot-chilli.net).

Tags Domains, PEP, Pubsub

Features

New public domains added

Last night we added two new public domains to the Jabber server:

jabber-hosting.de
xmpp-hosting.de

Tags Domains, Features

Downtimes Features Maintenance

Proper certificates for secondary domains

Post author By Roi
Post date May 10, 2010
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To avoid login errors or messages and also to avoid certain problems with server-to-server connections we installed proper certificates for the secondary domains today.

We had to restart the Jabber services several times, sorry. The ejabberd config file isn’t commented very good, also Google didn’t tell us the correct settings in the first place. But everything works fine now.

PS: For old SSL connections to port 5223 there are no dynamic certificates. This just isn’t possible because of how SSL works.