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Tag: dns

Solving Pidgin cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger (YM)

by jimmy on Jun.19, 2009, under English, Linux

Starting June 18 I started having problem connecting to YM with Pidgin.
Somehow it’s random I can connect or not.

I google and several article/forum writing that need to flush dns cache and also about several YM server cannot be accessed from Pidgin.

I try my friend advice to change YM server configuration to IP rather than domain name.
And it’s worked..

You will need to use cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com as Pager server since June 24, or you can update to pidgin 2.5.7 to solve this problem

The steps: (continue reading…)

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