Sorry... sanitizing these logs is time consuming, so I went the lazy route. Attached...
In case it is useful, I am adding a debug from the latest (successful) login attempt....
Indeed, patched DLL works well with Pidgin 2.11.0 if I set the server name to <blank>....
Debug log indicates this time it gets further in than I've seen with previous methods....
The attached log shows only one or two connections, and it's likely the DNS call...
Unfortunately there are multiple secondary servers that it uses, and they use dynamic...
Yes, I've tried to fake it using hard-coded IPv4 in my hosts file. This gets me further,...
Update: I think I found the smoking gun: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1075...