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Yahoo not connecting

joe935
2009-06-19
2013-01-14
  • joe935

    joe935 - 2009-06-19

    This morning Yahoo is not connecting to its server. Any one else having this problem/
    Pidgin version 2.5.6

     
    • Paolo M. Grossholz

      me too...

       
      • hmhill17

        hmhill17 - 2009-06-24

        Using 2.54.  None of the fixes are working for me anymore.  I really don't want to download Yahoo Messenger, but it may be the only option at this point.

         
        • Etan Reisner

          Etan Reisner - 2009-06-25

          Or update to pidgin 2.5.7, your call.

           
    • Cathal Garvey

      Cathal Garvey - 2009-06-19

      Me 3.

      I can ping the default configured server of scs.msg.yahoo.com, but cannot connect for the last 2 or 3 hours that it has been trying.

       
    • arctic.vampire

      arctic.vampire - 2009-06-19

      I had the same problem.
      Do a ping on scs.msg.yahoo.com and put that resulting ip in instead.
      I am using 66.163.181.173  and it works.

      hope this helps.

       
    • jehster

      jehster - 2009-06-19

      Started happening yesterday for me. I switched from port 5050 to 80 and it worked. This morning 80 isn't working either. 2.5.6 on Linux (compiled from source).

       
    • pichoscosama

      pichoscosama - 2009-06-19
       
    • Cathal Garvey

      Cathal Garvey - 2009-06-19

      Changing the IP address, as above and in the ticket http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9414#comment:3 , works for me.

       
    • Doug Breaux

      Doug Breaux - 2009-06-19

      This page claims a change to Yahoo's authentication mechanism, that servers are being upgraded over time, and that Pidgin 2.6 should work with the new mechanism.

      http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-information/faqs/26-pidgin-yahoo

       
    • jehster

      jehster - 2009-06-19

      http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9414#comment:3

      Ticketing database is timing out. What IP did you get to work?

      Thanks in advance.

       
    • jehster

      jehster - 2009-06-19

      aaah... cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com in that celticwolf URL worked for me.

       
    • Silver Fang

      Silver Fang - 2009-06-20

      Same for me. One of my online friends says it's due to bad blood between Yahoo and GNU.

       
    • Mattp

      Mattp - 2009-06-20
       
    • joe935

      joe935 - 2009-06-24

      New Problem. Pidgin 2.5.7 notified that i had yahoo mail. So i Clicked on the message and then Pidgin had a problem and had to close (sorry didnt get error message" I restarted Pidgin but Yahoo would not connect.
      I had the server set to 66.163.181.170. i changed it back to scs.msg.yahoo.com and then yahoo connected.

       
    • joe935

      joe935 - 2009-06-24

      Here is the Event log error that i got when clicking the Yahoo mail message:
      Faulting application pidgin.exe, version 2.5.7.0, faulting module libglib-2.0-0.dll, version 2.18.4.0, fault address 0x000507a9.

       
    • joe935

      joe935 - 2009-06-24

      With the yahoo server address set back to scs.msg.yahoo.com. The problem of clicking on the yahoo mail message seems to be resolved.