On sze, márc 06, 2013 at 20:29:44 +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:01:32PM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > Hi! > > > > <Preface> > > You can use Google Talk with Bitlbee, because it supports jabber, but on > > OpenBSD with one condition: you must specify the server name for the > > account (eg.: 'account set server xmpp.l.google.com', because bitlbee's > > SRV DNS queries don't work on OpenBSD [1]. Basically Bitlbee uses the > > ominous ns_*() functions for SRV type DNS lookups, and those are missing > > from our libc. So now, when Bitlbee tries to fire up a GTalk account, it > > can not query the SRV record(s) for _xmpp-client._tcp.gmail.com, and > > falls back to querying A records for gmail.com (given that the account > > id is username(at)gmail.com) and fails to connect. > > </Preface> > > This is not specific to gmail, it's in the protocol itself. And fwiw, it > seems it works ootb with the libpurple flavor of bitlbee, connecting > with an account f...@bar.com where the server is xmpp.bar.com and there's > a dns srv record such as > $host -t SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.bar.com > _xmpp-client._tcp.bar.com has SRV record 0 5 5222 xmpp.bar.com > > With that i dont need to set the server in the account config - so you > might want to have a look at how libpurple works here.
Oh, I kind of forgot about libpurple. Of course, it totally replaces the IM account handling. Thanks for the pointer! > That said, i'll recheck with the regular unflavored bitlbee, and with > your diff. Thanks! Daniel -- LÉVAI Dániel PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F
