Connect private jabber server to public ones

Openfire Openfire Support
1

Hi there,

we are using an openfire server in our company for internal communication. Now we want to jabber also with external contacts that e.g. have a jabber.org or gmail.com Account. How can we connect to users that use public jabber servers?

Thanks for hints!

2

you need to allow the xmpp traffic to pass on your firewall (5222, 5223). Then you just add the users to your roster using their full JID (e.x. johnd@jabber.org).

3

5223 is allowed to go out and in, but not 5222 (as I’m only allowing SSL Connection). Is that the problem?

4

depends on the server you are attempting to converse with. If they don’t use SSL you need to support standard connections.

5

Hmmm, does not seem to work even if port 5223 and 5222 is transported.

I’m getting following error in my info.log when sending message to an “external” (e.g. jabber.org) contact:

2009.03.10 08:21:20 Dropper: found illegal IQ packet, repaired packet:



NIDAG


Do I need to enable some transport or something like that ?

6

I think that this logentry from warn.log does say more:

2009.03.11 09:01:39 Error returning error to sender. Original packet:

org.jivesoftware.openfire.PacketException: Cannot route packet of type IQ or Presence to bare JID:





at org.jivesoftware.openfire.spi.RoutingTableImpl.routePacket(RoutingTableImpl.jav a:217)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.return ErrorToSender(OutgoingSessionPromise.java:285)
at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.run(Ou tgoingSessionPromise.java:219)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Any help appreciated.

7

I now followed the S2S Guide and now everything works. I made the mistake that I required SSL connections for jabber.org, which the service obviously does not support.