Re: interaction of NM and pidgin

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:27:28AM +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since the upgrade to Intrepid and NM 0.7 I have problems with pidgin connection
> after suspend/resume AND disable/enable networking - sometimes pidgin is able to
> reconnect and sometimes it shows DNS resolver problems. The problem is always,
> that the hostnames

Devices configured in /etc/network/interfaces will always pretend to
be online. If you have entries in that file it could be that pidgin
tries to connect even though you are not online yet.

Otherwise, it's a pidgin bug I assume.

 - Alexander