XMPP Perlbal-like implementation

[Albert Lash]

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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