I think this line in hosts of a PC that does have such address doesnt make sense. But i’'m not a linux or network guru. Such line must be in all others machines hosts for them to be able to see your machine as msn.miguelcarvalho.com or whatever. But if a number of other machines is too big this is not a good solution.
being 10.76.46.134 my lan address.
The host name it’'s Horacio. But for the service to
make a real connection to msn i would need an public
ip address or not?
try this:
well, i was testing only PyICQ at my local Win2000Pro machine. And gateway was working fine without external IP. I’'m in LAN too.
it’'s necessary to add some configuration to jive-messenger.xml?
No
it’'s it possible to announce the service locally?
What do you mean by announce?
do you need a public ip address for msn or other protocols registration, right?
No
Anything i’'m doing wrong?
Making it more complicated then it is???
As long as the DNS on your lan can resolve msn.miguelcarvalho.com to the right machine, you should be good to go.
The bigest thing people get hung up on is thinking that PyMSN is a server that MSN is happy to talk to, when it is really a “fake” msn client that pretends to be you and relays your chats to the MSN servers on your behalf.
There is no need to DNS setup on the public side pointing msn.miguelcarvalho.com to your computer.