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Gah! This is starting to drive me quite spare!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Started conversation Jul 4, 2007
I cannot log into ichat via Jabber using my details* - which are to my knowledge all correct.
I have followed the advice in this FAQ to the letter
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076&query=jabber&topic=&type=
and it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.
Setting the server to talk.gmail.com as recommend prompts an immediate message "cannot connect to host talk.gmail.com"
If I delete "talk" and just having server as gmail.com which is the default option that automatically gets inserted when i enter my google talk login details, it just sits there for a further 5 minutes before issuing the same rejection notice.
Impenetrable problems like these where the hallmarks of my old wretched PC and I really, *really* don't want to start down the path in my mind of associating 'Things Not Working' with my lovely new shiny imac, lest i get all pathological about it.
Someone please help me to fix this. 
because nothing appears to work!
Clive. 
Gah! This is starting to drive me quite spare!
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 4, 2007
Clive, I can't be certain, but it sounds like you might have a "stale" DNS entry and need to clear your DNS cache. (The server has moved to a different IP address but your machine still remembers the old IP address...)
If you're using a Router to connect to the web you'll often find that it also caches your DNS entries... Try just restarting your router before you try anything else. 
Gah! This is starting to drive me quite spare!
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 5, 2007
Hmmm. Interesting. I'll give it a try. Cheers Peet.
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Gah! This is starting to drive me quite spare!
- 1: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jul 4, 2007)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 4, 2007)
- 3: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jul 5, 2007)
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