On Jan 7, 2012 11:14 AM, "Andrey Moshbear" <andrey....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 23:04, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 2012 9:59 AM, "Andrey Moshbear" <andrey....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > [snip] > >> > >> where exactly is the SSL problem? > >> > > > > It's not SSL problem, but SASL authentication failure. > > > > Check the following, might help : > > > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/88989/unable-to-connect-to-google-talk-using-pidgin-sasl-error > > > > Interesting how having > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 localhost > > instead of > > 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname > ::1 localhost hostname > > causes subtle issues. > > And yes, that fixed it. Thanks for the link. >
I think the SASL handshake appended the hostname somewhere, and Google rejected all auth attempts from "localhosh" But that's just some speculation. Anyways, glad it helped. Rgds,
