Changes due to Denial of Service Attacks

Hi List,

Since the recent denial of service attacks, I understand that some
measures were taken on the server side to prevent the attacks. In
particular, this notice:

2012-08-21: Another Denial of Service
The previous DDoS attack has started again. As before,
fallback measures are in place, but if your IM client doesn't
handle DNS SRV records correctly then you might not be able to
connect.

My client is Pidgin 2.10.5, and around this time of attacks I have
lost the ability to connect to jabber.org. (By the way, I am not a
gamer).

Below is the debug log. Can anyone see what the problem might be?
Would it be that Pidgin doesn't handle DNS SRV records correctly?

Many thanks,

Rob

(09:33:21) proxy: Attempting
connection to 208.68.163.220

(09:33:21) proxy: Connecting to jabber.org:5222 with no
proxy

(09:33:21) proxy: Connection in progress

(09:33:27) jabber: Sending
(ssl) (robn@jabber/Home): <iq type='get'
id='purple8c6601ad'><ping
xmlns='urn:xmpp:ping'/></iq>

(09:33:27) jabber: Recv
(ssl)(61): <iq xmlns='jabber:client' id='purple8c6601ad'
type='result'/>

(09:34:24) proxy: Connecting to jabber.org:5222.

(09:34:24) proxy: Error
connecting to jabber.org:5222 (Connection timed out).

(09:34:24) proxy: Connection attempt failed: Connection
timed out

(09:34:24) proxy: Attempting
connection to 2605:da00:5222:5269::2:1

(09:34:24) proxy: Connecting to jabber.org:5222 with no
proxy

(09:34:24) proxy: Connection
attempt failed: Network is unreachable

(09:34:24) jabber: Couldn't
connect directly to jabber.org. Trying to find alternative
connection methods, like BOSH.

(09:34:24) dnssrv: querying TXT record for jabber.org:
_xmppconnect.jabber.org

(09:34:27) jabber: Sending
(ssl) (robn@jabber/Home): <iq type='get'
id='purple8c6601ae'><ping
xmlns='urn:xmpp:ping'/></iq>

(09:34:27) jabber: Recv
(ssl)(61): <iq xmlns='jabber:client' id='purple8c6601ae'
type='result'/>

(09:34:34) dnssrv: res_query
returned an error

(09:34:34) jabber: Unable to find alternative XMPP
connection methods after failing to connect directly.

(09:34:34) connection:
Connection error on 0x9c03fe0 (reason: 0 description: Unable to
connect)

(09:34:34) account: Disconnecting account
[email protected]/Home (0x97154a0)

(09:34:34) connection: Disconnecting connection 0x9c03fe0

(09:34:34) jabber: jabber_actions: have pep: NO

(09:34:34) connection: Destroying connection 0x9c03fe0

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