Google’s SRV records

Posted by Anurag Bhatia in DNSFeb 2nd, 2009 | 4 responses

After recieving lots of emails regarding SRV records issue in Google Apps, i finally tried that in myeslf……unfortunately thats true that Google has missing info. about SRV records.

As per refering to official Google’s help here .

It has missing info. about the location servers.

Here are those missing SRV records…

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 5 0 5222 talk.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk1.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk2.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk3.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.YOURDOMAIN.TLD. IN SRV 20 0 5222 talk4.l.google.com.

so finally saying…..just forget everything and have these SRV records to get your domain’s Gtalk working from external IM services…

I created a public G.docs spreadsheet here for easy viewing.

Feel free to post for any issues…

FAQ ON GApps SRV Records

[faq list Google Apps SRV Records]

[faq ask Google Apps SRV Records]

Hope this will help you out :)

[ratings]



4 Responses to “Google’s SRV records”

  1. Steve says:
    April 9, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Thanks for this! Could you translate to what Enom offers for it’s SRV Editing each in the form of a field?:
    [Services] [Protocol} [Priority] [Weight] [Port] [Target (Hostname)]
    Much appreciated!

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  2. Ben says:
    February 9, 2010 at 3:43 am

    Hey Anurag,
    Thanks for the great spreadsheet. I noticed a lot of my customers having problems getting Google Apps to Federate. I ended up writing a script to help them check their SRV Records:

    http://www.olark.com/gtalk/check_srv

    Should help people out as well,

    Cheers,
    Ben

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  3. Anurag says:
    February 9, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    That’s nice Ben

    Thanks for sharing link. Infact that will help other Google Apps users also to verify their srv’s.

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    Anurag

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