Spark Trouble

[TH300]

Well, I am not starting with the actual problem, but with a suggestion:

Since we are no longer using irc it would be appropriate to rename this forum to xmpp or to create a new forum for xmpp. If you do the latter, you should move this thread.

The problem that I'm having is: I don't receive some chat messages sent by other people in <outpost2@conference.outpost2.net>. It happens that people are chatting for half an hour (or even longer) and I don't receive (or see) any of their messages. I also don't receive any error message. A workaround is for me to close the chat window and rejoin, upon which I receive the last xy messages.

I am going to use another client as soon as I have an appropriate one.

[Lukc]

Well, as far as I can tell, it is not possible to connect to that XMPP server anymore, so…

Personally, I get DNS errors (host not found), things like that. Maybe it would be better to use a third party server?

And btw, all XMPP clients cannot list the rooms of a server, so giving the room name on the xmpp page would be great…

[Hooman]

Hmm, I've experienced no problems using Spark. I'm not too sure what to suggest at the moment.

You're probably right about listing the main room though. I've added a small note to the webpage.
 

[Lukc]

What I meant was the JID of the room, for clients connecting only by JIDs. (for what I understood, it is outpost2@conference.outpost2.net)

As for my problem, here it is:

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Sent a join request to <outpost2@conference.outpost2.net>...
Received error packet [remote-server-not-found] from <outpost2@conference.outpost2.net/Lukc>
Error message from server: Server-to-server connection failed: DNS resolution failed

It may be linked to the missing messages TH300 is experiencing, but would be very strange. I’m not sure what could be the problem atm. :/

[TH300]

I have a JID registered on outpost2.net, hence no server-to-server communication for me.

Furthermore, I have a theory on what caused the not-receiving of some messages for me: The pings sent by the server sometimes don't reach my comp (for whatever reason - maybe they're not actually sent, maybe they're dropped somewhere in my home network...). Since my client doesn't receive some pings it will sometimes not respond to them. For the server this looks like the connection to my client was terminated.

I solved that problem by writing my own client which periodically pings the server to tell the server that the connection is still active.

But as I said: My problem was a client-to-server thing, and I've always been able to establish a connection.
 

[RipperKhan]

check host files .check firewall settings. also maybe ur isp dns is crap. use googles instead

[Lukc]

My hosts file is fine, my firewall is fine and my DNS is fine. Anyway, I can’t change any of this as I use my client through SSH on a friend’s server, which works fine.

Could you give me the IP so that I could check whether or not I can connect to the server without DNS? Also, are you using IPv4, IPv6 or both on your XMPP server? I know upyum.com had problems with IPv6 XMPP connections (some Lua libraries were missing, IIRC).

[Hooman]

It's connecting to outpost2.net, which I see resolves to 69.10.40.42. I connected to the server to verify, and netstat does indeed show a connection to that address.