How To Fix Pidgin Yahoo Error " Could not establish a connection with the server:Error resolving scs.msg.yahoo.com.Name or service not known"
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Incase you use yahoo with pidgin , you may sometimes find this error saying " Could not establish a connection with the server:Error resolving scs.msg.yahoo.com . Name or service not known". Sometimes trying to connect multiple times may solve the issue , but sometimes it may never connect.Now this can get very irritating, so there is a fix for it.If you carefully look at the error , it says "Error resolving....".Now this is mostly some communication problem with the pager server scs.msg.yahoo.com . So the fix is like this :

Step 1 : Open Pidgin , then go to Accounts->Add/Edit ( or just press Ctrl+A)
Step 2 : Then select your Yahoo account and Click on Modify

Step 3 : Then Go to Advanced
Step 4 : NOw under Pager Server replace scs.msg.yahoo.com with 66.163.181.166 or 66.163.181.173 .
( CHECK OUT THE UPDATE SHOWN BELOW )

This ip you get when you ping scs.msg.yahoo.com
prash@prash-desktop:~$ ping scs.msg.yahoo.com
PING scs.msg.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=321 ms
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=320 ms
64 bytes from cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com (66.163.181.166): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=323 ms

Step 5 : So , your Advanced settings should now look like this

Step 6 : Now click on Save and and Enable Your yahoo account again , this time you hopefully should be able to connect.Incase you still cant try the second, i have mentioned 2 ips

Note : Basically what you are doing is directly providing the ip address of scs.msg.yahoo.com thereby saving time and the need to resolve scs.msg.yahoo.com

UPDATE : I guess the same problems has surfaced again since 2 weeks , here is another workaround. In Step 4 replace scs.msg.yahoo.com with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com . Here's a screenshot :

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58 comments

Anonymous said... @ December 1, 2008 at 9:07 AM

Thanks for the posting the fix.

Karthikeyan C said... @ December 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM

Thanks for saving my time..Good post

Chad Cloman said... @ December 5, 2008 at 10:26 PM

Thank you very much for this.

Anonymous said... @ December 8, 2008 at 1:48 AM

thank you that fixed my problem

Nick B. said... @ December 14, 2008 at 5:17 AM

Looks like Y! broke their DNS or something. Your fix works for Pidgin and I suspect it will fix Adium too :)

Anonymous said... @ March 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM

thanks, worked for me with the 2nd ip address

hivoltag3 said... @ April 20, 2009 at 8:22 AM

1st try to flushing DNS cache,
by typing these @ command prompt

net start dnscache
net stop dnscache

or

ipconfig /flushdns


if not succsess,then use following pager servers

Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.168 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.169 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.185 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.186 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.187 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.188 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.189 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.193 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.106 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.107 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.166 Name: scs.msg.yahoo.com Address: 66.163.181.167

hope this will help,

Prash Babu said... @ April 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM

thanks hivoltag3 for your suggestion. This works for windows i guess :)

wijayanto said... @ April 23, 2009 at 6:55 PM

thanks it really helpful :)

Anonymous said... @ April 24, 2009 at 5:09 AM

This works great! Thanks for the tip!

Need More Calcium? said... @ June 18, 2009 at 6:50 AM

cool was troubled by this problem whole day today..and now its working thanks to this instruction!

Anonymous said... @ June 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM

The first IP worked for me.

Thanks, you're a lifesaver!

Ali Baba said... @ June 18, 2009 at 6:59 PM

Thank you so much!

Mindy said... @ June 18, 2009 at 7:03 PM

Thank you! I had been having trouble with this for months...

pemiam said... @ June 18, 2009 at 7:33 PM

I tried this via (ping scs.msg.yahoo.com) but no luck :-/

Anonymous said... @ June 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM

1st ip address worked 1st time - thank you!

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 7:53 AM

works thanks thought it was going to be a reinstall

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM

tnx maan.. :D

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 1:20 PM

wow thanks a lot! pidgin is logged in again finaly

inmymind said... @ June 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Thanks, you've saved me!

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM

Thanks, really appreciate that you spent time to publish this workaround.

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM

Seems to work, thanks!

Anonymous said... @ June 19, 2009 at 3:24 PM

Using the hostname cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com works just as well. Both the IPs specified resolve to this host anyways.

mama21mama said... @ June 19, 2009 at 3:43 PM

thanks helped me a lot

Ramesh said... @ June 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM

Thanks a lot...appreciate your write up.

Moving Services said... @ June 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM

TY So much!

dwpbike said... @ June 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM

the ip provided by ping didn't work, but the ip provided by you did. tells me yahoo is !@#$%^ up, as usual. tanks

Anonymous said... @ June 22, 2009 at 1:23 AM

Thanks a lot! It solved my problem!

Anonymous said... @ June 22, 2009 at 7:01 AM

A MI TAMBIEN ME FUNCIONA!!! Reemplazando scs.msg.yahoo.com por 66.163.181.166

MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!

Trương Ngọc Tân said... @ June 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM

thanks to post !

Eric M. said... @ June 24, 2009 at 5:57 AM

As of June 24, 2009 8:50 AM (EDT), the fix doesn't seem to work anymore (while it was working yesterday); even though a ping is successfull on 66.163.181.166 and 66.163.181.173, Pidgin tells me the connection is refused with both addresses...

Anonymous said... @ June 24, 2009 at 7:31 AM

Just to confirm that it doesn't seem to work anymore since today.

Anonymous said... @ June 24, 2009 at 7:32 AM

I am also having the same issue on my Fedora 10 instance. I used this fix for the last two day with no problem, and now - nothing.

Unknown said... @ June 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM

It is also not working for me either, even with the IP. :(

-mike

Anonymous said... @ June 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM

ty so much

Anonymous said... @ June 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM

this fix worked for me, but now it doesn't work anymore. Anyone know why?

Anonymous said... @ June 25, 2009 at 5:03 AM

same here, it use to work, now its broke!

Anonymous said... @ June 25, 2009 at 5:35 AM

pidgin 2.5.7 is out and fixes everything

Anonymous said... @ June 25, 2009 at 5:56 AM

If you ping yahoo several times you will get several differnet IP's responding. I have used 5 this morning and so far, none of them have worked.

Anonymous said... @ June 25, 2009 at 6:21 AM

Successful connect for me with latest version.

Steps:
1. Download latest version
2. Uninstall the previous version
3. install the latest version
4. flush dns
5. make sure Pager server = scs.msg.yahoo.com
6. save
7. have fun.

Prash Babu said... @ June 26, 2009 at 1:03 AM

@everybody

Glad this helped!!I have also mentioned another workaround at the end of the tutorial mentioned as an UPDATE . That should also work!!
cheers,
Prash

sikku said... @ June 26, 2009 at 2:04 AM

If nothing works around try using this url: scsa.msg.yahoo.com

Sikku said... @ June 26, 2009 at 2:06 AM

It has been found out that yahoo servers a ugrading... Thats the main reason pidgin is not getting connected....
check this url: http://theflamingbanker.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-clarification-on-yahoo-issues.html

Anonymous said... @ June 26, 2009 at 5:26 AM

Thanks a lot

Unknown said... @ June 26, 2009 at 8:03 AM

Download the newest version 2.5.7, it fixes the problem.

http://www.pidgin.im

Anonymous said... @ July 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM

Thank you! I've been trying to fix this for weeks now!

Prash Babu said... @ July 22, 2009 at 7:19 AM

Glad it worked!!

Anonymous said... @ July 22, 2009 at 10:24 PM

Thanks ... it works now after applying this fix.

Anonymous said... @ August 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM

Thanks I am finally re-connected to yahoo. I am using open suse 10.3 and the only one that works is cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com, not sure why but I'm glad anyways!

Anonymous said... @ August 11, 2009 at 10:53 AM

The last fix worked for me. Thanks.

Anonymous said... @ August 18, 2009 at 1:25 AM

thank u very much adding cn works for mee ....

:)

Anonymous said... @ August 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

No one could help me fix this problem, but the last step did it.

Thanks so much!!

Prash Babu said... @ August 19, 2009 at 7:05 AM

glad it helped!!

Anonymous said... @ September 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM

I was in the same boat. Nothing was working until I did the following.

ipconfig /flushdns
set host to: cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

Thanks all!

Anonymous said... @ October 23, 2009 at 7:12 AM

did anyone else notice this stopped working about 2 weeks ago?

Anonymous said... @ November 24, 2009 at 2:26 AM

the cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com did the trick for me . all the other fixes didnt help this time.
thanks so much!

Anonymous said... @ April 9, 2010 at 12:30 AM

again pidgin has stopped cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com doesnt work ( name or IP )
Is there any other server in place of cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

Prash Babu said... @ April 12, 2010 at 8:27 AM

well im currently using the same paging server and it works fine.. check your settings again

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