IChat Server dropping virtual domain.

Question

Hello everyone,
I have a fresh 10.6.2 server install with newly configured OD and DNS.
The server hostname is server.mydomain.com and has a verified ptr record.
I also have a CNAME of ichat.mydomain.com to server.mydomain.com
In iChat server I have added the ichat.mydomain.com to the list and it all works for a while but then after a reboot it removes itself and users can not longer connect. If I add it back again it will run as if it never was removed.
Anyone?
Many thanks,
David Lee

Answer 1

I wanted to post an update here with my findings so far. Over the last 24 hours my iChat virtual host domains haven't been deleted and it may be related to the following.
Like many others, I had been getting the dreaded AppleYukon2 chip reset "bug" (AppleYukon2: 00000001,00000000 sk98nif - deadmanCheck - nothing received, resetting chip) showing up in my kernel.log. It appears this AppleYukon2 issue is related to network inactivity, albeit triggered by only a couple minutes of inactivity.
As a test to eliminate network inactivity, and therefore the AppleYukon2 chip resetting issue, I started pinging the router on my network every minute. I did this with "ping -i 60 router_name" from Terminal. This has been successful in stopping the AppleYukon2 chip reset.
You can read more about the AppleYukon2 issue here and here.
Now on to its relation to the iChat dropping virtual hosts from the list. I noticed many times when the AppleYukon2 issue was popping up, that in my system.log I would see jabberd detecting a network change and reloading its configuration files.
Apr 2 08:56:31 srv1 configd[31]: network configuration changed.
Apr 2 08:56:31 srv1 /usr/sbin/serialnumberd[98360]: Responding to network change notification.
Apr 2 08:56:36 srv1 servermgrd[73]: servermgr_mail: Network change request does not identify the old address. No action taken.
Apr 2 08:57:35 srv1 servermgrd[73]: servermgr_jabber: External configuration change detected, re-loading: sm.xml
Apr 2 08:57:35 srv1 servermgrd[73]: servermgr_jabber: External configuration change detected, re-loading: c2s.xml
Apr 2 08:57:35 srv1 servermgrd[73]: servermgr_jabber: External configuration change detected, re-loading: muc-jcr.xml
It seems during these times, but not always, iChat would drop the virtual domains from the list. Also (and I'm going from memory here) it seems that it dropped domains while I was in the middle of using the server and network. But I can't be positive on that.
My server hasn't removed the domains since sometime yesterday before I started pinging my router, whereas before it would remove things multiple times per day. Hopefully this (lame) workaround will turn out to be a temp fix.
Can anyone else test this to see if it helps their situation?