Okay, that’s good! I sent you an auth request and message.
I’m on but don’t see your auth request and message?
I’m in Pidgin/Buddy List/&bitlbee and see fixingbrokenstuff and root in the right column.
In the chat field, I type:
help command
register
/OPER
but the output says Unknown command.
Uuhm… Root? Chat field? “/OPER”? This sounds more like IRC commands to me. Jabber does not have such commands. Anyway, I don’t see you online. Are you sure you know what you’re doing there? 
Okay, I’ve check Pidgin and there’s no option for jabber, only AIM, Bonjour, Facebook, Facebook (XMPP), Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, GroupWise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MXit, MySpaceIM, SIMPLE, Sampletime, XMPP, Yahoo, Yahoo JAPAN and Zephyr.
I have found some Jabber downloads, however most are .exe files for Windows.
I would have thought I could set up Jabber via Pidgin, however the settings or set up aren’t clear.
https://register.jabber.org/ Jabber registration is temporarily disabled.
I have tried setting up an ICQ account under the username fixingbrokenstuff@gmail.com.
Jabber = XMPP.
XMPP is the low-level protocol, Jabber is the chat service that’s based on XMPP. You can use any public XMPP service out there. If you manage to set one up, feel free to contact me under “frank@tianet.de”.
ICQ does NOT use usernames in the “user@domain.tld” form. You get NUMBERS as IDs there. Mine is 15325926. If you manage to get ICQ running, feel free to contact me there.
Hi, I think I have Pidgin’s jabber and ICQ working now. Just send message but says your jabber not online. I guess you’ll see a message from me in ICQ?
No, I’m not receiving anything from you. Sorry… can’t help you like this. (My XMPP is nearly always online. But you can’t see me unless you send me an authorization request.)
Hi, I have tried with ICQ and jabber, which seems to register via Pidgin, however I think our time differences miss each other. Did you receive any instant message at all?
Here’s some of the latest results whilst trying to access my website.
I ran the dig command from the virtualmin server:
[root@centos ~]# dig www.mydomain.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 <<>> www.mydomain.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62525
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mydomain.com. IN A
;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.180#53(192.168.1.180)
;; WHEN: Sat Aug 3 14:27:27 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 38
Okay, changed the Webmin > Networking > Network Interfaces > Name: eth02 > IPv4 address, from 192.168.1.043 to 192.168.1.163.
Terminal > ssh virtualmin@192.168.1.163 > dig www.mydomain.com, gives the following results now:
[root@centos ~]# dig www.mydomain.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 <<>> www.mydomain.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55415
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mydomain.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.mydomain.com. 38400 IN A 192.168.1.35
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com. 38400 IN NS localhost.localdomain.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
localhost.localdomain. 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1
localhost.localdomain. 86400 IN AAAA ::1
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Aug 3 14:57:59 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 133
I certainly can’t follow those tests you did there with all the different IP addresses in you LAN or say what might be wrong.
You can’t “miss each other” with jabber or icq. For one, my tablet is always online here, and if it wasn’t, the jabber server would store and forward offline messages. Still I’m not receiving anything from you. You need to send an xmpp auth request to frank@tianet.de.
Okay, I think I’ve set up a new Pidgin account fixingbrokenstuff@jabber.ch. Hopefully you received an instant message?
The fixingbrokenstuff@jabber.co.nz gives an error message:
SSL Certificate Error
Unable to validate certificate
The certificate for jabber.co.nz could not be validated.
The certificate chain presented is invalid.
Funny, as the fixingbrokenstuff@jabber.ch set up smoothly via Pidgin?
Yes, i got your auth requests now. I’ll ping you later after breakfast and stuff.
Okay, I think I fixed most of your DNS issues. At least IntoDNS isn’t complaining anymore, and tracing your hostnames from the outside works.
The main issue was that you’re operating your server behind a NAT with private IP addresses, and are trying to have Virtualmin host and manage the zone in which the main nameserver hostnames for your domains are going to be. That’s a slightly “icky” constellation and required some specific setup of the template and main configuration.
It’s best practice to have an administrative domain for your hosts that’s outside the scope of domains managed by Virtualmin.
Okay, the DNS actually runs now.
However www.intodns.com shows the errors:
Missing nameservers reported by parent
FAIL: The following nameservers are listed at your nameservers as nameservers for your domain, but are not listed at the parent nameservers (see RFC2181 5.4.1). You need to make sure that these nameservers are working.If they are not working ok, you may have problems!
localhost.localdomain
Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are:
ns2.domain.org.au
ns1.domain.org.au
This is listed as an ERROR because there are some cases where nasty problems can occur (if the TTLs vary from the NS records at the root servers and the NS records point to your own domain, for example).
I have set the nameservers with WAN IPs after much help from the IRC, so not sure how these errors still occur?
I checked the glue records are already set up with the domain registrar. Nameservers and A records are set up from the previous chat to point to the WAN IP. host domain.com ns1.domain.com couldn’t get address, but everything else works, so trying to figure this possible last error out.
Well, from my end, the offer I made on IRC and this forum multiple times is still valid, that’s all I can do for you at this point.
So this issue if fixed. The default IP address Virtualmin sets for the A records was the LAN, which needed to be the WAN IP.
This Worked! Thanks!
Man oh man what a relief. That was a scary issue to wake up to.
After migrating to a new server, I was tinkering with DNS to try to get all the errors out using
http://www.intodns.com/chyprioustech.com
http://www.intodns.com/theraggedfence.com
http://www.intodns.com/ginnymyrtprimitives.com
chyprioustech.com being the main server
Somewhere along the line I must have done somthing wrong
I used webmin to backup the Bind and Apache configs and ran your suggested commands and PRESTO it was Fixed.
Thank you Mr. Deity.
Stopping named: [ OK ]
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0
zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0
zone 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0
zone *******.com/IN: loaded serial 1385210172
zone *******.com/IN: loaded serial 1385210283
zone *******.com/IN: loaded serial 1385210433
zone *******.com/IN: loaded serial 1385210490
And so on…
[FAILED]