Migrated Partychat rooms and Google Apps domains
Due to App Engine cost changes, I've been working with the partychat folks to migrate our services to a new domain (new rooms are channel@im.partych.at).
We're seeing a lot of people who are using accounts on Google Apps domains having difficulty connecting to the new Partychat services.
Simple solutions
If you are using a Google Apps domain, these instructions (from Google) will help you get partychat working again. This will require help from someone with access to your domain settings (probably a system administrator).
If you don't have access to DNS records, or can't find someone who does, you will have to use a @gmail.com account instead.
Technical Details
Every domain needs to have a SRV DNS record to tell other XMPP servers where to connect (if the bare domain does has no record). The SRV record's name should be "_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com." This doesn't just affect partychat, it prevents most people on non-Google third-party domains from being able to talk to you.
You can check if your server has one by executing the following (change mydomain.com to the name of your domain):
vijayp@ike:~/src$ nslookup
> set q=SRV
> _xmpp-server._tcp.mydomain.com
Server: 10.0.10.1
Address: 10.0.10.1#53
** server can't find _xmpp-server._tcp.mydomain.com: NXDOMAIN
As you can see, mydomain.com doesn't have a record, so our servers don't know where to send your chat messages. Here is an example of a properly configured domain:
vijayp@ike:~/src$ nslookup
> set q=SRV
> _xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net
Server: 10.0.10.1
Address: 10.0.10.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net service = 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net service = 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net service = 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net service = 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net service = 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
November 15th, 2011 - 19:28
I have the SRV records setup but it’s still not working. I get a 503 error when trying to post.
Is there supposed to be a webgui at im.partych.at? There’s nothing there. It doesn’t even seem to resolve.
November 22nd, 2011 - 03:13
FYI you can do all that in one command:
nslookup -query=SRV "_xmpp-server._tcp.q00p.net"November 22nd, 2011 - 17:29
We are having the same problem. We are unable to migrate out chat room properly.
November 23rd, 2011 - 16:07
same here, also have SRV records installed and tested, I always get a message that server has been migrated. Also tried creating a new room on a non-google apps account, same result. I’ve head that Android client is still working.
December 1st, 2011 - 19:43
I found the partychat is not quite working in the last couple days, very slow response, or even not working…
December 6th, 2011 - 16:44
I’m in the same boat as Bill. Any help?
December 8th, 2011 - 19:34
Transient (non-Google Apps) issues with partychat should be fixed.
December 20th, 2011 - 06:13
Hi Vijay,
Just wanted to know if you evaluated Node.js (http://nodejs.org) for revamping of your application? Some bits of the app seem the right candidate for Node.
Regards,
Ravi
January 3rd, 2012 - 22:46
We have the same problem. We have added the srv records but it still doesn’t work
April 12th, 2012 - 14:09
Thanks for sharing, migrating from and to Google Apps can be a challenge and recently my company migrated domains and used an online service at
https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=14156+5077282021820947710&hp=recentlyAdded
I hope they keep adding more migration apps for Google Apps
February 26th, 2013 - 18:43
I’ve updated my SRV records but still no luck.
I’m in the chat room (via gmail) and can see others talking now, but when I send a message it just says the room “did not receive your chat”..
Anyone got a solution for this?
Thanks
March 20th, 2013 - 10:13
bom galera nao sei ingles como me cadrasto no chat para conversa com os outros por favor explique em portugues