[Debian-rtc-admin] [rt.debian.org #8880] Set a CNAME record in debian.org

[Julien Cristau via RT]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 10:19:50PM +0000, Debian Developer via RT wrote:
> in vogler.d.o we run prosody for DDs, like a year ago I made some config, and dns, changes to make http upload possibles so people can send each other cat pictures, so far so good.
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> This setup broke some time ago for a common jabber client, conversations (android client).
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> (conversations tries to connect to debian.org:5281 to upload files and fails)
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> I've tested on my personal domain setting something similar to the dns setup we use in Debian and in order to make this work I had 2 differences with debian.org. None of them makes a lot of sense but here it goes
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> - xmpp.$domain are an A and AAAA records pointing instead of a CNAME. The xmpp subdomain is used for file transfer and the main connection towards the service
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> - conference.$domain is a CNAME towards xmpp.$domain, d.o does not have this CNAME
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> TL;DR
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> could you DSA guys set a CNAME record pointing from conference.debian.org to xmpp.debian.org and change xmpp.debian.org from being a CNAME to A and AAAA records pointing to vogler's IPs?
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This makes no sense to me, why does anything care about a "conference"
name?

Cheers,
Julien