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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Thanks for the posting the fix.
Thanks for saving my time..Good post
Thank you very much for this.
thank you that fixed my problem
Looks like Y! broke their DNS or something. Your fix works for Pidgin and I suspect it will fix Adium too :)
thanks, worked for me with the 2nd ip address
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,
thanks hivoltag3 for your suggestion. This works for windows i guess :)
thanks it really helpful :)
This works great! Thanks for the tip!
cool was troubled by this problem whole day today..and now its working thanks to this instruction!
The first IP worked for me.
Thanks, you're a lifesaver!
Thank you so much!
Thank you! I had been having trouble with this for months...
I tried this via (ping scs.msg.yahoo.com) but no luck :-/
1st ip address worked 1st time - thank you!
works thanks thought it was going to be a reinstall
tnx maan.. :D
wow thanks a lot! pidgin is logged in again finaly
Thanks, you've saved me!
Thanks, really appreciate that you spent time to publish this workaround.
Seems to work, thanks!
Using the hostname cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com works just as well. Both the IPs specified resolve to this host anyways.
thanks helped me a lot
Thanks a lot...appreciate your write up.
TY So much!
the ip provided by ping didn't work, but the ip provided by you did. tells me yahoo is !@#$%^ up, as usual. tanks
Thanks a lot! It solved my problem!
A MI TAMBIEN ME FUNCIONA!!! Reemplazando scs.msg.yahoo.com por 66.163.181.166
MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!
thanks to post !
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...
Just to confirm that it doesn't seem to work anymore since today.
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.
It is also not working for me either, even with the IP. :(
-mike
ty so much
this fix worked for me, but now it doesn't work anymore. Anyone know why?
same here, it use to work, now its broke!
pidgin 2.5.7 is out and fixes everything
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.
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.
@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
If nothing works around try using this url: scsa.msg.yahoo.com
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
Thanks a lot
Download the newest version 2.5.7, it fixes the problem.
http://www.pidgin.im
Thank you! I've been trying to fix this for weeks now!
Glad it worked!!
Thanks ... it works now after applying this fix.
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!
The last fix worked for me. Thanks.
thank u very much adding cn works for mee ....
:)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
No one could help me fix this problem, but the last step did it.
Thanks so much!!
glad it helped!!
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!
did anyone else notice this stopped working about 2 weeks ago?
the cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com did the trick for me . all the other fixes didnt help this time.
thanks so much!
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
well im currently using the same paging server and it works fine.. check your settings again
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