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mdlbear ([personal profile] mdlbear) wrote2009-06-18 02:54 pm
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Is it just me?

... or has anyone else been having trouble connecting to Yahoo Messenger in the last couple of days?

I've checked, and I can still log in on yahoo.com and flikr.com; my password hasn't changed. I'm using pidgin, for what it's worth; Adium on the mac seems to have the same problem.

ETA: it's mysterious, but yahoo has a fix posted

replacing scs.msg.yahoo.com as the server in the Pidgin accounts setup with the IP address of a Yahoo server, say, 66.163.181.189, fixes it. You can choose any of the yahoo servers below:

66.163.181.179 - 66.163.181.180 - 66.163.181.181 - 66.163.181.182 - 66.163.181.183 - 66.163.181.166 - 66.163.181.167 - 66.163.181.168 - 66.163.181.169 .......... etc. ...170....171....172...

Then simply disable your Yahoo account after doing the replacement, and then re-enable it and it will work.
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[personal profile] mithriltabby 2009-06-18 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Been working fine for me. (We’re expected to be logged in all day at work...)
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[personal profile] mdlbear 2009-06-18 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Has there been a recent protocol change? The web client works, pidgin and adium don't.
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[personal profile] mithriltabby 2009-06-18 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I’m on pidgin 2.5.5-1 and haven’t had any problems.
Edited 2009-06-18 23:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] mdlbear 2009-06-19 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
apparently it only affects 2.4.x and earlier.
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