August 26, 2005
Google Talk
Some of you may have experienced problems connecting to Google Talk from on campus. The reason is that currently port 5222 (Jabber default) gets picked up by the packet shaper as P2P traffic and gets trimmed down. The good news is that network security knows of the problem and should be fixing it shortly.
In the meantime, if you want to connect to Google Talk using GAIM or any other Jabber client besides their default (which works out of the box for some reason), just connect to talk.google.com on port 80.
Update: August 29
Network Security has informed me that the Jabber restriction on port 5222 has been removed from the packet shaper. talk.google.com works fine now. Other Jabber servers on this port should also work.Trackback
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Comments
Awesome. I was wondering why it wasn't working. I never thought it might be a network issue. Now if my VPN account would start working someday, everything would be cool.
Doesn't seem to work with Trillian...
Any hints?
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