Pitfalls to avoid ################# These are corner cases which should not happen in the common usages, but if they do, what happens may be very confusing. Here are some tips. I am trying to connect to a bare IP and I get a DNS error ========================================================= For example, when trying to connect to ``192.168.122.1``, you may see:: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/network.py", line 272, in repeated_query raise_on_no_answer=False File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py", line 388, in __iter__ yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion. File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py", line 286, in _wakeup value = future.result() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py", line 277, in result raise self._exception File "/usr/lib/python3.4/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 54, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/home/horazont/.local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/dns/resolver.py", line 1051, in query raise NXDOMAIN(qnames=qnames_to_try, responses=nxdomain_responses) dns.resolver.NXDOMAIN: None of DNS query names exist: _xmpp-client._tcp.192.168.122.1., _xmpp-client._tcp.192.168.122.1. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/node.py", line 710, in _on_main_done task.result() File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py", line 277, in result raise self._exception File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py", line 233, in _step result = coro.throw(exc) File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/node.py", line 868, in _main yield from self._main_impl() File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/node.py", line 830, in _main_impl logger=self.logger) File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/node.py", line 337, in connect_xmlstream logger=logger, File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/node.py", line 142, in discover_connectors "xmpp-client", File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/network.py", line 318, in lookup_srv **kwargs) File "/home/horazont/aioxmpp/aioxmpp/network.py", line 280, in repeated_query "nameserver error, most likely DNSSEC validation failed", aioxmpp.network.ValidationError: nameserver error, most likely DNSSEC validation failed You should be using :attr:`aioxmpp.Client.override_peer` or an equivalent mechansim. Note that the exception will still occur if the connection attempt to the override fails. Bare IPs as target hosts are generally not a good idea.