Jabber-server med TLS-støtte for privatpersoner i Norge
Because of an error in Ejabberd 1.1.0 that made anonymous TLS enabled even if it was off in the config we upgraded to Ejabberd 1.1.1. This error is not very critical but it is good to be on the version that works like it should.
For more information look here: ejabberd 1.1.1: bugfix release
Maybe you don’t know who Peter Millard was, but he was the main developer for Exodus, a popular Jabber client for Windows. He was also one of the ones administering www.jabber.org and a very important person in the Jabber/XMPP community. Peter has fought cancer for some time and thought he was well untill a few weeks ago, but he had to give up the fight on wednesday night. He leaves behind a wife and a young daughter, our condolanses.
Read more on St. Peters blog and Planet Jabber.
Finally the upgrade was successful. Thanks goes out to Alexey Shchepin who could read the log files, and for those who does not know, he is also the main developer of ejabberd.
The upgrade problem was related to the fact that we earlier tested out a two node cluster, and now one node has been offline (terminated), thus removed uncleanly. Even if the node was removed it still existed in the database, and needed to be cleaned manually before the upgrade. I have been looking for information about how to do this for a while because I was aware of the dead node, but did not think that had anything to do with the upgrade. Maybe I should type a quick howto for ejabberd.jabber.ru?
In any case I am happy the upgrade was a success! 
Ejabberd 1.1.0 has shipped and is packed with more news and updates. New functionality worth mentioning is zlib compression of client to server traffic (I know Pandion support this), sasl anonymous logon (for anonymous access to MUC/Chatrooms), native support for MySQL as the database backend (we are migrating to this in a while!), logging for MUC/Chatrooms integrated (we have used a patch for this till now).
For more information about this release you can read the release notes here.
For your information we did try to upgrade the server to ejabberd 1.1.0 but we had some problems with TLS and klient to server handshake. I need to sort out these problems before we can shift over to the new version, but it will not be long!
Finally the easter vacation is over and I am back to work. I am now starting to asess the problems we have had this easter and getting these sorted. It is not easy to do work on narrow cellphone lines so I am glad to be back in civilization. These days I am wondering about migrating to another server that is more stable but this is currently running mail on windows so I have to migrate and reinstall it first. This might be the best way to get a better uptime. Sorry for all the problems this easter and I promise that I will do what I can to get these problems fixed!
We have again had some downtime on ejabberd, and I cannot find anything in the logs. Sadly this is happening when I am on easter vacation so it took some time before I noticed the problem. Should the problem occur again then I would love an SMS sendt to +47 932 42 123 and then I can start it up again. When I get back to work I will investigate the problem further.
Sorry for problems this has caused.
Happy easter to all!
Yesterday we switched ISP and had about 15 minutes downtime. Lets hope the new internet connection is as stable as the old one