Starting yesterday, my Pidgin stopped connecting to Yahoo!’s messenger service (MSN kept working). Being lazy, I’ve just changed the scs.msg.yahoo.com host to 66.163.181.166 in the user profile panel – the first solution I’ve came across on Google – and it started working again. For another day or so.
But today, it stopped working again and I couldn’t get it working again. So I’ve used Meebo to go online and ask others if their YM! clients worked, if they’ve also encountered this problem, and, most important, what did they do to fix it. And – thanks to Radu – I’ve found out the root of this problem: Yahoo! changed the specifications of its im protocol. Fortunately, the Pidgin guys don’t waste time and the problem can be solved by upgrading to Pidgin 2.5.7.
Had the same problem today.
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Resorted to the same solution after a bit of “braging” the yahoo staff
Just upgrade to 2.5.7 and all your problems will magically go away…
Thats what i did
Yeah, and if you edited /etc/hosts, you have to un-edit it for the upgraded Pidgin to work.
Editing the hosts file would have been the lamest hack ever!
thanks, my problem solved .
Hi, very nice post. Very usefull
Thanks for sharing this solution. I’ve been having the same problem for over a year now and this is the only solution that works. Thanks to Radu for devising it, and thanks to you for sharing it with the world!