Greetings from the Newbie Zone:

I am running gaim 0.68 on RedHat9.  I was using it yesterday.  Today, I
open gaim and try to login.  Instantly I get an error message kicking me
out.  "Unable to connect"

Now -- inexplicably -- it lets me in.  

Anybody else had this spurious behaviour?  Google tells me others have,
over the years, but there is no cure mentioned other than "install the
latest version".

Craig