Hey all,

 

Just to give some perspective, I’m very green to jabber and XMPP, but have a pretty good grasp of Debian.

 

It’s very possible that I don’t understand how XMPP and external gateways work even though I have read an inordinate number of articles.

 

My goal is to setup a jabber server that will allow jabber accounts to IM with ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and MSN.  For now I’m just trying to connect to ICQ.  I’m running Debian Etch (recent dist-upgrade) and have installed jabberd 1.4.

 

I have a jabber server that is running, and accepting connections (XMPP).  I can connect to the server with Pidgin or Psi, create users and chat with other users on my jabber server.

 

I have installed the ICQ transport (via apt-get install ).  See configs below for details. 

 

As I understand it, the next step is to “register the gateway server” (http://open.echomine.org/confluence/display/MUSE/3.8+Gateway+Registration).  If I’m reading this article correctly, I should be able to create a user with the JID of the ICQ gateway (icq.jabber.mydomain.com <at> jabber.mydomain.com).  This does not seem to work.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Jim Roberts

Techonolgy Point

 

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I have configured my jabber-jit.xml like so (of course I have anonymized my actual server name and jabber.xml follows further down):

<jabber>

  <service id="icq.jabber.mydomain.com">

    <host>sms.icq.jabber.mydomain.com</host>

    <icqtrans xmlns="jabber:config:icqtrans">

      <sms>

        <host>sms.icq.jabber.mydomain.com</host>

                <show>away</show>

                <status></status>

      </sms>

      <instructions>Please enter your UIN and password</instructions>

      <search>Search users in ICQ</search>

      <vCard>

        <FN>JIT</FN>

        <DESC>Jabber ICQ Transport</DESC>

        <URL>http://jit.jabberstudio.org</URL>

      </vCard>

      <prime>3907</prime>

      <chat/>

      <user_count_file>/var/log/jabber/icqsession_count.log</user_count_file>

      <session_check>5</session_check>

      <reconnects>5</reconnects>

      <session_timeout>18000</session_timeout>

      <charset>windows-1252</charset>

      <server>

         <host port="5190">login.icq.com</host>

      </server>

    </icqtrans>

    <load>

      <icqtrans>/usr/lib/jabber/jit/jit.so</icqtrans>

    </load>

  </service>

  <service id="icqlinker">

    <uplink/>

    <connect>

      <ip/>

      <port>5555</port>

      <secret>someSecret</secret>

    </connect>

  </service>

  <pidfile>/var/run/jabber/jabber-jit.pid</pidfile>

</jabber>

<!--END of jabber-jit.xml -->

 

And here is my jabber.xml:

<jabber>

  <service id="sessions">

    <host><jabberd:cmdline flag="h">jabber.mydomain.com</jabberd:cmdline></host>

    <jsm xmlns="jabber:config:jsm">

      <filter>

          <default/>

          <max_size>100</max_size>

          <allow>

              <conditions>

                  <ns/>         

                  <unavailable/>

                  <from/>       

                  <resource/>   

                  <subject/>    

                  <body/>       

                  <show/>       

                  <type/>       

                  <roster/>     

                  <group/>      

              </conditions>

              <actions>

                  <error/>      

                  <offline/>    

                  <forward/>    

                  <reply/>      

                  <continue/>   

                  <settype/>    

              </actions>

          </allow>

      </filter>

      <vCard>

        <FN>QA Jabber Server</FN>

        <DESC>Jabber Server on Debian GNU/Linux!</DESC>

        <URL>http://jabber.mydomain.com/</URL>

      </vCard>

      <register notify="yes">

        <instructions>Choose a username and password to register with this server.</instructions>

        <name/>

        <email/>

      </register>

      <welcome>

        <subject>Welcome!</subject>

        <body>Welcome to the Jabber server -- we hope you enjoy this service! For information about how to use Jabber, visit the Jabber User's Guide at http://jabbermanual.jabberstudio.org/</body>

      </welcome>

      <vcard2jud/>

      <browse>

         <service type="icq" jid="icq.jabber.mydomain.com" name="ICQ Link">

           <ns>jabber:iq:gateway</ns>

           <ns>jabber:iq:register</ns>

           <ns>jabber:iq:search</ns>

         </service>

 

      </browse>

      <disco>

        <identity category='services' type='jabber' name='Jabber 1.4 Server'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:browse'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:agents'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:register'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:time'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:last'/>

        <feature var='jabber:iq:version'/>

      </disco>

      <mod_auth_crypt>

        <hash>SHA1</hash>

      </mod_auth_crypt>

    </jsm>

    <load main="jsm">

      <jsm>./jsm/jsm.so</jsm>

      <mod_echo>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_echo>

      <mod_roster>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_roster>

      <mod_time>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_time>

      <mod_vcard>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_vcard>

      <mod_last>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_last>

      <mod_version>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_version>

      <mod_announce>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_announce>

      <mod_agents>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_agents>

      <mod_browse>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_browse>

      <mod_disco>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_disco>

      <mod_admin>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_admin>

      <mod_filter>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_filter>

      <mod_offline>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_offline>

      <mod_presence>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_presence>

      <mod_auth_digest>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_auth_digest>

      <mod_auth_plain>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_auth_plain>

      <mod_log>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_log>

      <mod_register>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_register>

      <mod_xml>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_xml>

    </load>

  </service>

  <xdb id="xdb">

    <host/>

    <load>

      <xdb_file>./xdb_file/xdb_file.so</xdb_file>

    </load>

    <xdb_file xmlns="jabber:config:xdb_file">

      <spool><jabberd:cmdline flag='s'>/var/lib/jabber</jabberd:cmdline></spool>

    </xdb_file>

  </xdb>

  <service id="c2s">

    <load>

      <pthsock_client>./pthsock/pthsock_client.so</pthsock_client>

    </load>

    <pthcsock xmlns='jabber:config:pth-csock'>

      <authtime/>

      <heartbeat/>

      <karma>

        <init>10</init>

        <max>10</max>

        <inc>1</inc>

        <dec>1</dec>

        <penalty>-6</penalty>

        <restore>10</restore>

      </karma>

      <ip port="5222"/>

    </pthcsock>

  </service>

  <log id='elogger'>

    <host/>

    <logtype/>

    <format>%d: [%t] (%h): %s</format>

    <file>/var/log/jabber/error.log</file>

    <stderr/>

  </log>

  <log id='rlogger'>

    <host/>

    <logtype>record</logtype>

    <format>%d %h %s</format>

    <file>/var/log/jabber/record.log</file>

  </log>

  <service id="dnsrv">

    <host/>

    <load>

      <dnsrv>./dnsrv/dnsrv.so</dnsrv>

    </load>

    <dnsrv xmlns="jabber:config:dnsrv">

                <resend service="_xmpp-server._tcp">s2s</resend> 

                <resend service="_jabber-server._tcp">s2s</resend>

                <resend>s2s</resend>

    </dnsrv>

  </service>

  <service id="s2s">

    <load>

      <dialback>./dialback/dialback.so</dialback>

    </load>

    <dialback xmlns='jabber:config:dialback'>

      <legacy/>

      <ip port="5269"/>

      <karma>

        <init>50</init>

        <max>50</max>

        <inc>4</inc>

        <dec>1</dec>

        <penalty>-5</penalty>

        <restore>50</restore>

      </karma>

    </dialback>

  </service>

  <service id="update.jabber.org">

    <host>update.jabber.org</host>

    <null/>

  </service>

  <service id="icq">

    <host>icq.jabber.mydomain.com</host>

    <host>sms.icq.jabber.mydomain.com</host>

    <accept>

     <ip/>

      <port>5555</port>

      <secret>someSecret</secret>

      <timeout>30</timeout>

    </accept>

  </service>

  <io>

    <rate points="25" time="5"/>

  </io>

  <pidfile>/var/run/jabber/jabber.pid</pidfile>

</jabber>

<!--END of jabber.xml -->

Hi Stefano,

 

My problem turned out to be much simpler that it could have been.  As it turned out to be that the icq.jabber.mydomain.com name was not in DNS or my hosts file.

 

I hope your issue turns out to be as simple.

 

-Jim Roberts