Problems Connecting to Yahoo Messanger w/ Pidgin

If you’ve recently have had problems logging into your yahoo account you may not be the only one. On my systems all of a sudden it stopped working and once I added the host entry bammm it worked.. (was able to ping the name just fine, so forward lookups were ok..)

But here’s what I had to do:

Add:
66.163.181.173 scs.msg.yahoo.com

into /etc/hosts

have fun, hope it helps someone

UPDATE

Also see the comment below from James, you can also upgrade to Pidgin 2.5.7 which fixes the issue.

You can upgrade using the following repository:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/openSUSE_11.1/ GNOME\ Community

sudo zypper mr -r GNOME\ Community

sudo zypper up -r GNOME\ Community

Thanks for the update James.. do you know what caused it at all?

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7 Comments

  • June 23, 2009 | Permalink |

    …or you can update to 2.5.7 – for openSUSE, it’s in GNOME:Community

  • June 23, 2009 | Permalink |

    Thanks James.. I’ve updated post.. do you know what the cause was with Pidgin?

  • Jason
    June 23, 2009 | Permalink |

    Thanks totally helped!

  • June 24, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Jason

    Glad it helped someone.. bugged the living hell out of me .. haha

  • Nicole
    June 24, 2009 | Permalink |

    Doesn’t seem to work for Easy Peasy yet. I’ll have to wait for the update to become available.

  • June 24, 2009 | Permalink |

    @Nicole

    What version of Pidgin is on easy peasy? and did you put the said line into /etc/hosts?

  • Karan
    November 11, 2009 | Permalink |

    @James Ogley
    Thanks james … worked like a charm ….

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