Yahoo kills Yahoo Messenger 6-7.5 and Pidgin fails

I still use Pidgin as my favorite messanger till now for years.. ^_^

I cannot connect with Y! messenger.

I still get the error "myuserofY!@yahoo.com has disconnected. Server has closed the session"

I'm running (libpurple 2.5.8) and I change the things you said but nothing works for me.

I'm the only one or Y! has made it again.

Greetz & thanx in advance

66.163.181.170 and other addresses (most of them that I've tried out) in the previously mentioned list do not work anymore.

Any idea how to fix this at least temporarily until the new Pidgin becomes available?

Just head on to http://pidgin.im and download the latest version to get this fixed.

No longer have to mess around with the hosts file.

Thanks ppl. now i'm login with 66.163.181.170...

This problem is fixed in Pidgin 2.5.7

changing to 66.163.181.167 page server working for me.
ubuntu 9.04 pidgin 2.5.6.

Added "66.163.181.170 scs.msg.yahoo.com" to my hosts file, and then disabled "Autodetect IP address," setting 66.163.181.170 as Public IP. Works like a charm!

Thanks for the info-- I've been using Yahoo's webmessenger for the last two days, which, ugh.

James's fix above worked perfectly for me, at least for right now.

66.163.181.170 adding into pidgin replacing scs.yahoo.com will work too. Tested and working on windows xp.

Please refer to the link below: http://www.celticwolf.com/useful-information/faqs/26-pidgin-yahoo

Pidgin and Yahoo

As of June 17, 2009, Pidgin users are having trouble connecting to Yahoo! IM accounts. Here is a summary of the problem:

Yahoo! appears to be upgrading their servers to a new version of their software. This new version requires a new authentication method. The latest version of Pidgin, 2.5.6, does not support this new authentication method. The next version, 2.6.0, will, but it has not yet been released.

The domain name that is used to connect to Yahoo! servers is "scs.msg.yahoo.com". This domain name is actually mapped to multiple servers. Some of these servers have been upgraded, while others haven't. As a result, you may see intermittent failures, or you may fail every time, while your neighbor logs in successfully. It's effectively a roll of the dice.

The following addresses appear to work:

* cs101.msg.mud.yahoo.com
* 66.163.181.172

Update, 6/19/2009 16:20 UTC: I've gotten a report that scsc.msg.yahoo.com (note that's "scsc.", not "scs.") is working, at least intermittently.

These are the IP addresses to which scs.msg.yahoo.com maps. You can try one of them directly, but recent reports (on 6/19/2009) are that few, if any, are working. Note also that there is no guarantee that the server at an address that works now will not be upgraded next.

* 76.13.15.36
* 76.13.15.37
* 68.180.217.6
* 68.180.217.7
* 68.180.217.8
* 68.180.217.9
* 68.180.217.10
* 68.180.217.11
* 68.180.217.12
* 68.180.217.13
* 68.180.217.14
* 76.13.15.29
* 76.13.15.30
* 76.13.15.31
* 76.13.15.32
* 76.13.15.33
* 76.13.15.34
* 76.13.15.35

You can verify this list yourself by running one of the following commands:

Windows: nslookup scs.msg.yahoo.com

Linux/Unix/OS X: dig +short scs.msg.yahoo.com

To use one of the addresses above, you can either modify the setting in Pidgin (Accounts -> Manage Accounts -> Modify -> Advanced -> Pager Server) or you can modify the hosts file:

Windows: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (see wikipedia and here for more information)

Linux/Unix/OS X: /etc/hosts (see here for more information)

Thank you! I've been looking for answers to this problem for a while now. Didn't know where to turn until I seen this pop up on Google. :)

Thanks, I wondered why mine died. I modified my Yahoo settings directly in Pidgin and put in that IP as the pager server, and it worked for me. :D

This causes Adium to fail as well, but the simple solution is to change your account config so that the server is teh IP address

Thanks for the tip! It worked for me when adding that line to the host file.

this works if you use a socks proxy too ... just put it in /etc/hosts on the remote end of the tunnel

This fix worked for me. THANKS!

Using Pidgin 2.5.6 on Vista and XP. Yahoo accounts suddenly would not connect on June 18 and 19. The host file change listed above solved the problem immediately. Many thanks!

Wondered why my pidgin wasn't connecting and this article came up. I fixed the issue by going into advanced for the connection and changing the hostname to the ip address in there