jdev - 2020-01-05

I think the reason was because people were using it as a server recommender, which was not the goal

thats the purpose

it even says "Randomly suggested compliant servers"

so the page is here to suggest good servers to people

but that was never the question, why i want to see a list of all compliant servers, is so i can maybe choose one from my country for example

so say a server has a srv entry for _xmpp-client

and no entry for xmpps-client

does that mean i only connect to whatever is in _xmpp-client

means i will never try 5223 standard direct ssl port?

Yes

Correct

ok good

5223 is not standard

so its expected if a server wants direct ssl he has to define xmpps

Correct

because xmpps i fairly new

what did servers before that?

Nothing

ok so my order is, check all srv entrys, if the server has one, i only use those

5223 was never a standard, but often servers opened that port as SSL/TLS anyway

if server has no dns srv entrys

and clients would connect there if the user specified it in the connection settings (usually a "legacy SSL" checkbox)

i use 5223 direct ssl, if that fails i try 5222

These days there should be no legacy SSL checkbox (because I said so), but you should do an xmpps SRV lookup

If there is no xmpps then don't connect to 5223 ever

yeah i just want Gajim to work with servers that have no dns entry, so i care about the fallback

because dns entrys is usually nothing you set right up when you configure your server

Hardly any other clients connect to 5223 without explicit configuration

actually nothing tells you to, you would have to look up this in some guide?

do the prosody install docs give a hint that dns srv entrys should be set up?

https://prosody.im/doc/dns

great

ok so i dont do 5223 as fallback

Sounds good

so no dns entrys whatsoever, i do only 5222

Correct

ok thx

I could be running a totally different server on port 5223 :)

5223 has been standardised as some HP virtualisation port.

in a dns A entry

if i set @ as host, it means my root domain

what does it mean if i set "*" as host?