Jabber Server Farming How-To

Ryan Eatmon

Jabber.org

2002-06-06

Revision History
Revision 0.12002-06-06rwe
First draft.

Abstract

Provide Jabber admins a look into the present and future of Jabber Server Farming.


Table of Contents

1. About this How-To
1. Purpose / Scope
2. About Jabber
3. Feedback
4. Copyrights and Trademarks
5. Acknowledgments and Thanks
2. Introduction to Jabberd and Farming
1. Jabberd - The Jabber.org Jabber Server
2. Farming
3. Implementing the Farm
1. Client-to-Server Farming w/ Round Robin DNS
1.1. The Dream
1.2. The Reality
2. Connection Redirection
2.1. The Dream
3. Router Layer
3.1. The Dream
4. Moving JSM State data into a DB
4.1. The Dream
5. Multiple JSMs
5.1. The Dream
6. JSM Communications
6.1. The Dream

List of Figures

3.1. c2s Farming Diagram