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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…or you can update to 2.5.7 – for openSUSE, it’s in GNOME:Community
Thanks James.. I’ve updated post.. do you know what the cause was with Pidgin?
Thanks totally helped!
@Jason
Glad it helped someone.. bugged the living hell out of me .. haha
Doesn’t seem to work for Easy Peasy yet. I’ll have to wait for the update to become available.
@Nicole
What version of Pidgin is on easy peasy? and did you put the said line into /etc/hosts?
@James Ogley
Thanks james … worked like a charm ….