iChat won't connect

[PippinTheJedi]

Hey all. My iChat won't connect with AIM. It'll connect for a few seconds and then say "the connection to the host was unexpectedly lost." As far as I know, it's a firewall/port issue from my googling, but I haven't found anything yet. Any idea of what's going on? I know the account works, b/c the regular AIM lets me login, but I really wanna use the iChat.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Try by not going through a firewall -- see if that helps.

 

[PippinTheJedi]

Does that mean disabling it? Is that safe?