I recently set up Google Apps for Your Domain for my domain. At first, it seemed it wasn't possible to set up the required SRV DNS entries with GoDaddy. However, after looking around the Total DNS Control Manager, I saw it was possible to create custom DNS entries by adding TXT entries. I just set the value with the information as required by Google, and it worked like a charm. I was even able to set up Gaim to work with my jsierra.net chat account:
- Screen Name:
- Server: jsierra.net
- Resource: Gaim
- Password:
- Use TLS if available (enabled)
- Connect port: 5222
- Connect server: talk.google.com
3 comments:
Hey, I'm tyring to set up federation with my DNS host using TXT as they don't support SRV either. Can you tell me how you did it?
I am presented with two text boxes with 'IN TXT' between them as so:
[ ] IN TXT [ ]
Am I correct in putting the '_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com.' (with gmail.com swapped to my domain) in the first box and the 'IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.' in the second box?
Cheers.
P.S. I made an error with my first comment and so deleted it.
Are you also using Godaddy's Total DNS Control Manager? On their DNS setup, the first item is just a label. So you can label them something like gtalk1, gtalk2, gtalk3, etc. What you enter in the first box is arbitrary. The second item is the actual DNS entry. For my domain, the entry is:
_xmpp-server._tcp.jsierra.net. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
I'm not sure if the settings are the same for your DNS provider as well, but you could try putting the entire DNS entry into the second box, and just put something arbitrary in the first.
First, thank you for creating Google Web Definitions. I use it daily. One modification request: Could you display the source url with the definition. It's tough to know whether a unique definition or definition for a mis-spelled word (imbed) is the product of an authoritative source or an idiot. Again, nice work.
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