[Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS

[Sascha Silbe]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:13:26PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> So in our use case we can't get any entries into the existing DNS.
You might have already considered this, but I wanted to make sure you 
know about this option:

"The existing DNS [server]" doesn't (necessarily) mean "the current 
school-owned/operated DNS server".
You can use whatever domain you have (sufficient) control over, e.g. set 
up a subdomain of solutiongrove.com or even just register your own one.
The technical stuff (setting up / operating a DNS) won't be an issue, we 
can help you out on that. I have experience administering djbdns based 
servers, bernie probably is able to help out in case you choose to go 
with BIND.
If you don't care about the domain name I could even set you up on one 
of my domains (about 10 minutes if you catch me on IRC, within 24h via 
EMail).

I'll distinguish between two cases.

1. externally hosted server

You'll just need a DNS record (SRV + A/AAAA specifically) under some 
valid domain name.
Should be really easy to set up, depending on what domain you choose / 
who owns and operates it. For the "register your own" case: AFAIK most 
registrars provide some basic DNS service that should suffice (mine does 
and is quite cheap). You can also run your own DNS server on the same 
machine as the Jabber server (it needs to have a public IP address 
anyway for Jabber).

2. server located at school
This is more interesting and depends a lot on what infrastructure there 
is at school, both to support and to interfere with your stuff (or get 
disturbed by it).
If you'd like to do this, please give as much information as possible 
about the networking environment.


Please note that I'm talking only about the Jabber server. I don't know 
if the XS needs some special setup (e.g. name only "schoolserver" 
instead of "schoolserver.whatever.tld") for backups etc. to work. Maybe 
Martin follows up to answer that...

CU Sascha

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