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Google Apps SRV Records

Many of our customers try to user Google Apps for your domain with Olark. Unfortunately Google does not tell system administrators to configure Google Talk to work with external XMPP(Jabber) networks by default. This leads to a lot of problems when a customer has Google Apps for their domain, but does not have the required SRV records to work with Olark.

We’ve always pointed out customers to: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34143

But, this doesn’t always solve the problem, because sometimes it takes a while for ISPs to update their DNS cache, and it’s hard for our customers to double check their ISP, or their own attempts at setting SRV records. That is until now!

Introducing the Olark Google Apps for your domain SRV Checker. Using the below tool, you can now finally see if your SRV records are set correctly.

Olark Google Apps for your Domain SRV Checker

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Posted by Olark 

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I am tired

OK, what is new.

Fixed a few bugs, made some UI tweaks. Nothing too exciting.

I set up a reverse proxy to make the RPC look like it's running on port 80 (in case someone is behind a firewall). It's crazy slow though. So I switched it back for now.

It's almost ready to go for the beta, I think.

EDIT: I think the reverse proxy thing was slow because DNS was broken. Seems snappy enough now.

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Posted by Olark 

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