ejabberd - Comments for "ejabberd listen error in CentOS 7 with firewalld"

The clustering part of the

mremond — Mon, 11 May 2015 14:20:21 +0000

The clustering part of the Erlang VM use random ports as default. There is an option in ejabberdctl.cfg called FIREWALL_WINDOW that you can use to tell Erlang to limit the port range to use. You need to set that window and your firewall configuration accordingly.

A few questions to help

drdread — Sat, 09 May 2015 13:47:51 +0000

A few questions to help diagnose the problem:

1) Have you reloaded firewalld since you made this change? sudo service restart firewalld
2) Have you checked which zone your machine actually thinks it's running in? sudo firewall-cmd --get-active-zone
3) Have you looked in /var/log/messages to see if there's anything related to ejabberd?