[kde-linux] Kopete refuses to connect to GTalk

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Jan 1 05:26:07 UTC 2009


Ryan Rix wrote:

>     On the other hand, YIM refuses to connect with Kopete. I've never had
>     any problem with Kopete losing settings.
> 
> Yeah, reading around, it seems that Yahoo does something strange with 
> their DNS servers or sth... the servers are online, but doing an 
> nslookup fails for the messenger address... I didn'et really understand 
> what everyone was saying.
> 
> anyways, changing the default server address for your yahoo account to 
> cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com <http://cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com> seems to help quite a 
> lot (connecting to the chinese yim server)

Thanks, that helped - got a connection. Strange things Yahoo likes to 
do, eh? Are there other yahoo message servers that can be used?

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David
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