Ah, found the input line for specifying a server. However, I tried with several on http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.shtml, both with host name and with IP address, and pidgin immediately fails with 'unknown host'. However, they aren't:
$ echo 'hello' | nc jabber.ccc.de 5222 <stream:stream version='1.0' from='jabber.ccc.de'[...] -- does not connect to Jabber: "XML is not well-formed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116170 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs