XMPP Service Operators - 2020-06-05

daidoji: http://xip.io ;) ✏

Licaon_Kter: that is a horrible hack and won't work if any kind of bogon filtering is deployed on the local network

Aka 'rebind protection'

Any case you can setup your own local .lan tld

If your router is openwrt you already have this

Or just add an entry in your hosts file

> tom Wrote: > Any case you can setup your own local .lan tld > If your router is openwrt you already have this > Or just add an entry in your hosts file Hosts file is not sufficient, you need srv records too

Ellenor Malik oh that makes sense. I've seen those referenced in tutorials, I was hoping I could just do it with hosts file hacking

daidoji, hosts file is sufficient, but if you’re running it in docker, that won’t use your hosts /etc/hosts ✏

daidoji, hosts file is/should be sufficient, but if you’re running it in docker, that won’t use your hosts /etc/hosts ✏

you may have to start the docker container with --add-host something

oh so the SRV records aren't necessary? I passed the hosts file into the docker container on build

oh okay, I'll try that

I’m fairly certain that docker will override that

for its own network stuff

but yeah, --add-host is the way to go

oh

okay

for context: SRV records are *preferred*, but if they don’t exist for the domain you’re using, fallback to standard address resolution is performed

which in most cases will include a lookup in /etc/hosts

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what will 100% not work are IP addresses, those will only cause pain and suffering

yeah unfortunately. Is there a reason they didn't allow for that in the standard?

it’s just like email in that regard...

or maybe it is allowed just not many implementations seem to respect it?

oh I see. So the Federation stuff works.

I think technically it could work, but noone bothers. There are many caveats around that, e.g. in the context of TLS verification.

ahhh

yeah that's true

and any "real" deployment will have a domain, even if just to be able to move to a different server

without having to recreate all accounts

true

well thanks for your help. I'm gonna give it another shot today

good luck!