[Pidgin] #8853: Cannot connect to Yahoo - "connection refused" error

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#8853: Cannot connect to Yahoo - "connection refused" error
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 Reporter:  christophermerkel         |        Owner:  marv  
     Type:  defect                    |       Status:  new   
Milestone:                            |    Component:  Yahoo!
  Version:  2.5.5                     |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:  connection refused error  |  
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Comment(by solarisjedi):

 Trillian will be the same as pidgin in DNS lookups. They simply use the
 systems OS resolver (gethostbyname if I'm not mistaken). The OS resolver
 does all the work of looking up the IP and nowadays usually putting it in
 a resolver cache. (hence the flushdns on windows to purge the cache, and
 other various tools on unix systems)

 I think in order to pull all IP's from a query and rotate thru them,
 pidgin (and even trillian) would possibly need to write their own form of
 a dns resolver/nslookup mechanism to incorporate into the IM program. I'm
 not a developer however, that may or may not be a pain since pidgin is a
 cross platform app, and also possibly negate any benefits of using the
 systems builtin libraries for DNS resolution.

 I've noticed this happening to me almost every time I sign in of a
 morning. It used to be once in a blue moon, but now it's every day. I just
 keep flushing the resolver cache until it connects.  Dandy's work around
 above works good too for short term. I'd probably forget I had done that
 however if that single IP stopped working LOL.

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