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[vthunder]

I have Google host my domain's jabber server, and I'm trying to get federation working as described here:

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60227

However, I can't seem to match the instructions. The best I can come up with is lines like:

_xmpp-server._tcp SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.

Instead of:

_xmpp-server._tcp.sandmill.org. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.

That is, what I can create using the dns manager is lacking the ".sandmill.org." string after "_tcp".

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks!
Dan

[vthunder]

My post is misleading: federation *does* seem to work. I'm just suggesting it might be nice to be able to follow the instructions to the letter :-)

When debugging problems, it's easy to get stuck on something like this, and ignore the real problem elsewhere.

[sweh]

vthunder wrote: That is, what I can create using the dns manager is lacking the ".sandmill.org." string after "_tcp".

Is there something I'm missing?

Everything you do in DNS manager automatically adds "your.domain." to the end of each record. The "." at the very end means it's fully qualified. Without that it means the record is relative to "your.domain."

so a "www IN A 1.2.3.4" and "www.your.domain. IN A 1.2.3.4" mean the same thing.

DNS Manager shouldn't(!) allow you to use the fully qualified version of the records because, in theory, you could add "www.someoneelse.domain." and could disrupt their DNS.