Joe Shisei Niski wrote: > The Empathy IM client seems to work, though somewhat intermittently. > Pidgin, on the other hand, can't connect to any service - unless i > connect to my employer's VPN. > > When connected only to my ISP, i can do dns lookups to all the IM > servers with no problem. i'm getting my IP addr via DHCP from my > Actiontec modem, which is configured to use Easytreet's DNS servers. > i'm not running any firewall software. web browsing, ssh, mail, all work > without a hitch. You mentioned something about your "employer's domain". What do you mean by this exactly?
For example, my previous employer had an internal jabber server and I had to be on the vpn to connect to it. Logging - System logging can be enabled in the Prefs menu. Have you done any port testing? w/o vpn connection can you run nmap for each of the diff IM services ports? e.g. nmap -p 5190 login.messaging.aol.com Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-07 11:10 PST Interesting ports on bucp-m1-vip.blue.aol.com (64.12.202.116): PORT STATE SERVICE 5190/tcp open aol Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.81 seconds If the ports are open, can you to telnet to an IM server on its port? e.g. AIM Server: login.messaging.aol.com AIM Port: 5190 Command: telnet login.messaging.aol.com 5190 If neither of the above works, the Pidgin client supports Proxy Servers and Port Forwarding. I would start looking into that... HTH, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
