The "resolver" program of jabberd 2.0.9 will fail to resolve any SRV records, and will fall back to using A records. This makes it impossible to communicate with gtalk users, and any other server where the A record doesn't point to their jabber server. I have tested this on Sparc, and the problem doesn't occur, so i assume it to be alpha specific.
Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.14-rc2 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-rc2 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha ~alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=ev56 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=ev56 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://213.165.240.3/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha a52 aac apache2 berkdb boundschecking bzip2 cli crypt curl dba dts encode expat ffmpeg flash ftp gd gmp imap innodb ipv6 ithreads jjpeg jpeg linguas_en_GB memlimit ming mpeg mpm-peruser mysql ncurses nptl ogg pam pcre pear perl perlxvid png posix qmail readline session sharedext sharedmem snmp sockets spamassassin spell ssl sysvipc tiff truetype vhostsimap xml xml2 xmlrpc zip zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Can you test 2.0.11-r1?
Same problem occurs on 2.0.11-r1