What does pidgin mean by "Host unknown"?

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Published on 2012-09-10T18:24:21Z Indexed on 2012/09/10 21:40 UTC
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Pidgin is telling me my XMPP account was disconnected; the error message is "Host Unknown". What specifically does this indicate? Can it not find the server it's supposed to connect to (one in my office)?

I can ping the server in the "Domain" account setting (under Basic) without a problem, and I even tried specifying an IP address in the "Connect server" account setting (under Advanced) without success.

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