various ramblings

-- justin kelly

checking your SRV records for google apps IM

If your having issues setting up your SRV records for google apps - a great little tool to check if your dns entries are OK is available from the olark.com website

refer below for links and image:

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


how to setup require google sub-domains for google apps with the free namecheap.com dns hosting

note: the googleffffffffcbf55ae7 sub-somain is for verification purposes - you'll

update: the below html paste didn't work out to well, in the 3rd column select CNAME (Alias)

 SUB-DOMAIN SETTINGS 
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   MAIL SETTINGS 

how to setup SRV records ( for google apps IM ) on the free namecheap.com DNS hosting

setting up SRV records -so you can user google IM for your google apps domain is a real pain with namecheap.com

- below is what you need to enter

note: when entering the _SEVRICE don't enter the first _ (underscore) as the save will fail and you'll loose all your data - namecheap adds it in after its saved

update: the below html paste didnt work to well - but you should be able to figure it out
 SRV SETTINGS 
  _SERVICE._PROTOCOL PRIORITY   WEIGHT     PORT         TARGET
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