Google Apps registration and resolution of ghs.google.com

I only wanted to write about the ghs.google.com issue, but I 'd like to briefly talk about Google Apps. Google Apps is a powerful enterprise application suite and service launched by Google. Currently, its main services include email, calendar, online documents, websites, and instant messaging, in fact, all these functions are available with Gmail and other features of your Google account, but these services and applications provided by Google are directly provided to your website domain name, in fact, I think the most important thing for enterprises is the mail account. If they have their own company domain name suffixes and have the same powerful features as Gmail, how exciting it is, but today, you don't need to be excited. Google will give you these services for free. The powerful feature is not just exciting. You can quickly drop your own mail post office and register a free Google post office, make your post office as powerful as Gmail.

OK, how to register? You can log on to this website at http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new. enter your domain name (you must first have your own domain name) and set it up. TIPS: I don't know why CN domain name registration is not successful. I am prompted that this service is not activated in the region, but Google cleverly opens a backdoor for us, enter your CN Domain Name as CN in upper case, such as my sharesh. CN can be registered. After activation, You need to activate the settings. There are two activation Methods: cname and file. Generally, I want to use the file activation method, as long as the HTML file is prepared as required and then placed in the directory of the website for access. Of course, to activate mail, you need to resolve the MX record to the URL provided by Google. Wait, and then you can use it. You can send and receive emails only after the MX record is correct. The free version of Google Apps provides 200 accounts. I think the average small and medium-sized enterprises must be enough. It is really good and powerful. OK. It's very simple. If you don't understand it, You can Google it.

for ghs.google.com, Google is actually trying to change your long domain name to a short domain name. Originally thought that after setting for the http://mail.sharesh.cn will not appear mail.google.com URL, but the result is actually Google made a turn, if only the turn, then why I need to set the cname record complex, then I directly switched mail.sharesh.cn to http://mail.google.com/a/sharesh.cnin domain name management. Here, I want to talk about the tossing process, not the simple result.

As mentioned above, Google provides the custom URL function. You only need to set the cname record of the URL to ghs.google.com. However, it is said that ghs.google.com has been disabled, access is unavailable in mainland China, so you cannot access it after setting the cname record. What should I do? Train of Thought 1: Use the URL for a try. First, I went to Co. CC registered a free domain name, and then set a second-level domain name cname to ghs.google.com, then I will mail my second-level domain name cname to Co. the second-level domain name of CC. I think if the second-level domain name of Co. CC can access ghs.google.com, then I can access ghs.google.com through Co. CC. However, the result is no, and Ping ghs.google.com can directly obtain the IP address, but it cannot. It is actually accessible through the U.S. proxy. Thought 1: a complete failure, because the IP address of ghs.google.com is blocked, there is no way. Method 2: Resolve the second-level domain name a record to the IP address of the service provided by Google. I found some Google IP addresses on the proxy server website, which are similar to the IP addresses of ghs.google.com (the fourth number is different, and the IP address query is from the US Google cluster ), ping the IP address, and quickly resolve the Record of the second-level domain name to the IP address (in fact, I use Co. the CC domain name made a record to Google, and my second-level domain name cname to Co. CC, but I want to directly record the second-level domain name a. It is a pity that the second-level domain name has switched to the Gmail website. It seems that there is a problem with the IP address selection, google finds another IP Address: 209.85.171.121, which is also Google's. The a record is parsed and the result is passed. The second-level domain name is switched to Google Apps.

Summary (in fact, there is no good summary): 1. if you want to access Google Apps with a short domain name, we recommend that you directly use the domain name URL forwarding function; 2. if you set a brief domain name for access in Google Apps, do not set a cname to ghs.google.com as Google said. Directly record second-level domain name a to IP: 209.85.171.121.

last: 1. co. the CC website provides free Co. CC domain name, can do a/cname/MX, NS can use other DNS, very good, if you need free corn friends can go to see; 2. the DNS of dreamhost is still very fast. I have added a record or cname, which can be accessed within 1 minute. However, if a or cname is updated, it seems a little slow; 3. the Internet DNS in The Times seems to be a little slow, but it may be because of the DNS Cache problem on my computer. Next time, let's talk about a strange phenomenon.