Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Ejabberd on Jabber.org

Published on 27. February 2006 in News. 0 Comments

This morning I got a mail from the XMPP.net mailinglist informing that jabber.org has upgraded its server to use ejabberd. So far they have been using the stable version ofÃÂ jabberd but since they have not had a release in a long time, ejabberd har gone far beyond in functionality. Even if jabberd has a 2.0 development project many has migrated to ejabberd, just like we did on Jabber Norway around a year ago

We congratulate jabber.org with the upgrade, and ejabberd for getting their software onto the largest jabber server on the Internet!

SSL / TLS Certificate from GeoTrust

Published on 22. February 2006 in News. 0 Comments

Now we have got a trusted SSL certificate for the HTTPS and TLS negotiation of the Jabber service and the web page. The certificates was donated from Steve Waite at GeoTrust, thank you very much

What this means to you users is that we no longer get a self-signed certificate error in web browsers or Jabber clients and a higher grade of security. Especially Psi I know had this message, and I have now tested with the new certificate and it is in the trusted CA list of Psi.

Online Chatroom

Published on 16. February 2006 in Jabber.no. 0 Comments

I found this post on the jdev mailinglist about a new project called MUCKl that gives web users access to a chatroom without having a user on the server. I have installed it on this server and invite you to test it but since we have not tested it very much I cannot guarantee that it works. Though, all tests so far has worked fine

Choose Online Chatroom in the menu to test.

ICQ Transport Upgraded

Published on 14. February 2006 in Transports. 4 Comments

I have upgraded theÃÂ ICQ transport to version 0.7, almost a year has passed since the last update so its very nice to get an update. Alot has changed since the last update but the most important for the users is support for Avatar images and improved Unicode support. For more information about whats changed see this information.

I havent tested the transport a whole lot since I no longer have many ICQ contacts, but my ICQ number is 1458759 so just contact me and we can test

Server crash again!

Published on 12. February 2006 in News. 0 Comments

At the same time tonight as last night the server crashed with the same kernel panic. We have now reverted back to the old kernel. Tomorrow I will investigate the errors and see if I can find out what is wrong. We can also try an ever newer kernel.

Fingers crossed!

Server crash tonight

Published on 11. February 2006 in News. 0 Comments

We had a kernel panic on the server tonight, possibly related to the kernel upgrade yesterday. Will investigate this more closely to find the problem but right now the server was just rebooted. All seems to be running fine for now at least

Kernel upgrade and MSN-beta removal

Published on 10. February 2006 in System Administration. 2 Comments

We need to reboot the firewall and www.jabber.no today because of an important kernel upgrade. There is some vulnerabilities in the kernel that need immediate attention. Will also remove msn-beta today, so all users must convert to the msn.jabber.no transport.

The reboot will be announced for connected users with an administrator message. The reboot will be done this morning / early afternoon CET.

MSN Transport problems

Published on 7. February 2006 in System Administration and Transports. 0 Comments

There was some problems this morning, I woke up to a memory eating transport and the server was very slow. After som tests I found out that the problem was my own msn account. Every time I logged on the transport stalled, but as long as I kept from logging on everything was ok. So now I will test with the msn-beta transport to find the error and in the meantime keep from logging on the msn transport.

At least things seems to be working better now!

MSN transport updated

Published on 5. February 2006 in Transports. 0 Comments

Now we have tested the SVN version of PyMSNt for some time on msn-beta.jabber.no and it has proved feature rich and stable. Since it has been upated quite frequently I have felt we could not run it as our maing transport, but now the last few weeks the updates has been few and all functionality has been added for the most part. Now it only remains to test it properly.

Hope all will appreciate this new transport and that it will work just as well, and beter, than the old one. There will probably be some adjustments to be made the next weeks but nothing major. Should be quite stable.

I just tested file transfer between Windows Live Messenger and Gajim 0.9.1 both ways and it worked very well.

Firewall restart

Published on 3. February 2006 in System Administration and Uptime. 0 Comments

We had to restart the firewall today and therefor the service was unavailable for a little while. When it was restarting I reconfigured ejabberd and put in a couple of new modulse that is supposed to give us some more statistics to put out on the web page. Will be getting back to this soon.

Other than this there is nothing much to report. This weekend I will maybe move msn.jabber.no over to the svn version but I have to see if I have the time. Also we probably should run both double up a few days so people can migrate over.
Have a nice weekend!