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DJabberd + Google Talk (GTalk) HOWTO

August 27th, 2007

Since GTalk is totally complaint with Jabber, all you need to do to make your jabber server communicate with it is enable S2S in your DJabberd configuration. Also, you might need to setup a SRV record so remote jabber servers know how to communicate back to your vhost.

Add this to your djabber.conf VHost section at the top.

S2S enable

Next, add the SRV records. More information can be found by following…

http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/2/docs/section05.html#5_7

Which means, you essentially add this (on BIND servers) to the domain configuration.

_jabber._tcp.some_domain.com. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5269 host.some_domain.com. _xmpp-server._tcp.some_domain.com. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5269 host.some_domain.com. _xmpp-client._tcp.some_domain.com. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5222 host.some_domain.com.

Check that they took by running…

dig @localhost _jabber._tcp.some_domain.com any +short

Now start adding your contacts just by using the GMail email address.. e.g

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