[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 tonyg):

 hi, i am having the same issue, flush does not help.  i am on suse 11.1
 and using pidgin 2.5.6  I have uploaded a wireshark packet capture and
 here is the debug output


 {{{
 Pidgin Debug Log : Thu 18 Jun 2009 08:30:26 PM EDT
 (20:28:21) account: Connecting to account tonyguadagno
 (20:28:21) connection: Connecting. gc = 0x7fa922c857a0
 (20:28:21) dns: DNS query for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com' queued
 (20:28:21) dns: Wait for DNS child 6296 failed: No child processes
 (20:28:21) dns: Created new DNS child 7097, there are now 1 children.
 (20:28:21) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 7097
 (20:28:21) dns: Got response for 'scs.msg.yahoo.com'
 (20:28:21) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (20:28:21) proxy: Attempting connection to 68.180.217.6
 (20:28:21) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
 (20:28:21) proxy: Connection in progress
 (20:28:21) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
 (20:28:21) yahoo: 100 bytes to read, rxlen is 120
 (20:28:21) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
 (20:28:21) yahoo: yahoo status: 99
 (20:28:26) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory
 /home/tonyg/.purple
 (20:28:26) util: Writing file /home/tonyg/.purple/accounts.xml
 (20:28:41) msn: C: NS 000: PNG
 (20:28:41) msn: S: NS 000: QNG 50
 }}}

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