hermes.jabber.org?!

I've got some connectivity issues on my openfire/kraken box right now - can't ping Internet hosts.  But the errors this has caused on the error.log has intrigued me - refering to hermes.jabber.org and proxy.eu.jabber.org...  The don't have any remote servers configured other than gtalk, yahoo and msn via kraken.

Can anyone shed any light on why my server might be trying to connect to jabber.org? 

Here are the errors I'm talking about from error.log:

 

2010.02.24 20:17:41 [org.jivesoftware.util.log.util.CommonsLogFactory$1.error(CommonsLogFactory.java:92)] error establishing connection
java.net.UnknownHostException: messenger.hotmail.com
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session$1.run(Session.java:130)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
2010.02.24 20:17:41 [org.jivesoftware.util.log.util.CommonsLogFactory$1.error(CommonsLogFactory.java:92)] error shutting down input on socket
java.net.SocketException: Socket is not connected
        at java.net.Socket.shutdownInput(Socket.java:1359)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.close(Session.java:378)
        at net.sf.jml.protocol.MsnSession.close(MsnSession.java:176)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.BasicMessenger.logout(BasicMessenger.java:108)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.SimpleMessenger.logout(SimpleMessenger.java:54)
        at net.sf.kraken.protocols.msn.MSNSession.cleanUp(MSNSession.java:170)
        at net.sf.kraken.session.TransportSession.sessionDisconnectedNoReconnect(TransportSession.java:540)
        at net.sf.kraken.session.TransportSession.sessionDisconnected(TransportSession.java:515)
        at net.sf.kraken.protocols.msn.MSNListener.exceptionCaught(MSNListener.java:485)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.AbstractMessenger.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractMessenger.java:303)
        at net.sf.jml.protocol.MsnSession$1.exceptionCaught(MsnSession.java:141)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.firExceptionCaught(Session.java:334)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.access$900(Session.java:30)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session$1.run(Session.java:143)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
2010.02.24 20:17:41 [org.jivesoftware.util.log.util.CommonsLogFactory$1.error(CommonsLogFactory.java:92)] error flushing remaining output on socket
java.net.SocketException: Socket is not connected
        at java.net.Socket.getOutputStream(Socket.java:810)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.close(Session.java:385)
        at net.sf.jml.protocol.MsnSession.close(MsnSession.java:176)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.BasicMessenger.logout(BasicMessenger.java:108)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.SimpleMessenger.logout(SimpleMessenger.java:54)
        at net.sf.kraken.protocols.msn.MSNSession.cleanUp(MSNSession.java:170)
        at net.sf.kraken.session.TransportSession.sessionDisconnectedNoReconnect(TransportSession.java:540)
        at net.sf.kraken.session.TransportSession.sessionDisconnected(TransportSession.java:515)
        at net.sf.kraken.protocols.msn.MSNListener.exceptionCaught(MSNListener.java:485)
        at net.sf.jml.impl.AbstractMessenger.fireExceptionCaught(AbstractMessenger.java:303)
        at net.sf.jml.protocol.MsnSession$1.exceptionCaught(MsnSession.java:141)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.firExceptionCaught(Session.java:334)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session.access$900(Session.java:30)
        at net.sf.jml.net.Session$1.run(Session.java:143)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
2010.02.24 20:17:42 [org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.createOutgoingSession(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:258)] Error trying to connect to remote server: proxy.eu.jabber.org(DNS lookup: hermes.jabber.org:5269)
java.net.UnknownHostException: hermes.jabber.org
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.createOutgoingSession(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:253)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.authenticateDomain(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:144)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.sendPacket(OutgoingSessionPromise.java:239)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.run(OutgoingSessionPromise.java:216)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

 

2010.02.24 20:18:41 [java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:472)] Got Exception on Login:
java.net.UnknownHostException: scs.msg.yahoo.com
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:180)
        at org.openymsg.network.DirectConnectionHandler.open(DirectConnectionHandler.java:93)
        at org.openymsg.network.Session.openSession(Session.java:3649)
        at org.openymsg.network.Session.login(Session.java:333)
        at org.openymsg.network.Session.login(Session.java:271)
        at net.sf.kraken.protocols.yahoo.YahooSession$1.run(YahooSession.java:113)
2010.02.24 20:18:41 [java.util.logging.Logger.log(Logger.java:472)] Never logged in, sessionStatus is: CONNECTING
2010.02.24 20:18:43 [org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.createOutgoingSession(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:258)] Error trying to connect to remote server: eu.jabber.org(DNS lookup: eu.jabber.org:5269)
java.net.UnknownHostException: eu.jabber.org
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.createOutgoingSession(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:253)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.session.LocalOutgoingServerSession.authenticateDomain(LocalOutgoingServerSession.java:185)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.sendPacket(OutgoingSessionPromise.java:239)
        at org.jivesoftware.openfire.server.OutgoingSessionPromise$PacketsProcessor.run(OutgoingSessionPromise.java:216)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)