Cannot connect to facebook chat

[Shounak Dasgupta]

I am able to connect to Gtalk through pidgin (don't know whether Gtalk
has/uses XMPP servers)
How can I check whether I am able to connect to other XMPP servers?

Hoping that it is a temporary issue with Facebook XMPP servers, and not
something more sinister like a network/firewall/router/content filtering
problem

Anyway, thanks for the replies!

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:

> This almost looks like a network/firewall/router/content filtering
> problem of some sort. Are you able to connect to other XMPP servers?
> Is it possible some corporate or school firewall is blocking outgoing
> connections to port 5222? Or maybe a local software firewall is
> blocking it?
>
> FYI my Facebook account is currently hanging while connecting. It's
> possible our problems are related and Facebook's XMPP servers are
> having problems.
>
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