We made some changes on our service to address this issue and prevent it from reoccurring. In no case should an existing federated domain be affected by Google Apps users. --justin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Jesse Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > rek2 wrote: > >> looks like our server is having the issue again, it was fine for a whole >> year and today just stop working.. >> looks like more servers are having the problem: >> >> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Talk/thread?tid=12547027e1d0db93&hl=en >> > > No problems here, FWIW. > > Our domains aren't signed up with Google Apps, but we had a few hundred > users who "activated" some of our domains, causing Google to hijack our XMPP > service for a while until we requested that they disable Talk for those > domains. > > Based on stpeter's comments on this page > > http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Talk/thread?tid=089ae52d97176669&hl=en > it seems that Google might have temporarily lost a config file that > specified which domains don't want to be impersonated by Google without > their permission. > > If this is going to be a regular occurrence, perhaps Google should change > their default behavior to only offer XMPP service for those domains that > have had an authoritative representative of the domain sign up for the > service. > > Jesse > > > -- > Jesse Thompson > Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison > Email/IM: [email protected] >
