XMPP Perlbal-like implementation
Albert Lash
albert.lash at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 15:31:00 UTC 2008
Hi Daniel,
My experience with djabberd has been limited to auth, but I'm
interested in this concept. I was thinking it might be possible
through DNS, IP load balancing, and S2S, but I have yet to try
anything out.
Please keep the list posted on your progress.
Thanks,
Albert
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Daniel Ruoso <daniel at ruoso.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing some services using XMPP and I'd like to load balance
> them using the following schema:
>
> Some Server
> ^
> |
> |
> XEP-0225/0114
> or even
> S2S connections
> |
> |
> v (XMPP-Client Agent Instances)
> Load-Balancing <--- same jid ---|b|------> A
> Component |a|------> B
> |l|------> C
> |a|------> D
> |n|------> E
> |c|------> F
> |e|------> G
>
> The idea is pretty simple, the component registers itself in some
> server, and accepts connection from clients, allowing a JID to connect
> more than once, and then dispatch the incoming messages to the clients
> grouped by the jid, doing a job very similar to the one done by perlbal.
>
> The only exception I can see so far is that iq replies should be routed
> to the same client that sent the get/set request.
>
> This doesn't seem too hard to implement, since DJabberd already have
> both the ClientIn and ComponentOut connections, so it's just a matter of
> letting more than one connection from the same JID and implementing the
> routing.
>
> Other option would be to implement it as standard s2s connections,
> instead of using component connection, which would only require the
> routing implementation.
>
> I started to navigate in djabberd sources, but I don't know exactly
> where to look to understand how this could be implemented.
>
> daniel
>
>
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