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wantamad

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Registered: 2007-01-18

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cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

hi guys,

i dont know what's happening... i can open any webpages but when i try to open mail.yahoo.com, i get a server timeout. and recently, i noticed when i sign into my yahoo messenger account using pidgin, i get a timeout also. i have windows on the same computer and im not experiencing this. i mean if this also happens in my windows installation, then i guess its a problem with my router but it only happens in arch... i checked my hosts.deny file and there is no entry there. i dont know what else to check. when i do a search on google, i dont see anything that can help me. any suggestions?

fukawi2

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

Can you open a terminal and ping those hosts?

ping mail.yahoo.com
ping scs.msg.yahoo.com

Have a look in your log files for those IP addresses / hostnames:

grep mail.yahoo.com /var/log/*
grep `dig mail.yahoo.com +short | tail -n1` /var/log/*

(You might need to install the dnsutils package for that to work - pacman -Sy dnsutils)

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wantamad

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

hi kukawi2!

thanks for your reply! i forgot to mention that i can ping both ips with no problem. also, i have dnsutils installed. even with other browsers like galeon, konqueror, opera (im using firefox) i can open mail.yahoo.com. its seems like my arch install is blocking those ips...

i tried looking in the log files but i cant find those ips there... any other suggestions?

fukawi2

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

even with other browsers like galeon, konqueror, opera (im using firefox) i can open mail.yahoo.com. its seems like my arch install is blocking those ips...

If it's working in other browsers, then it seems more like Firefox is 'blocking' those hosts... Maybe your proxy configuration / override policy?  (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection Settings)

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Ninja Cool Aero

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

I have the same issue, I am using chromium. I can't log in to mail.yahoo.com. I can can access yahoo mail from my windows PC but not from arch. I tried pinging mail.yahoo.com but I get unknown host. I can't find the answers at the wiki. I tried googling for solution but with no luck. Please help I really want to be full time arch user.

Last edited by Ninja Cool Aero (2012-01-31 12:26:10)

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

Very long shot but ... you can try to spoof the user agent and see if it works.

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Re: cant open mail.yahoo.com, cant login to scs.msg.yahoo.com chat

I have the same issue, I am using chromium. I can't log in to mail.yahoo.com. I can can access yahoo mail from my windows PC but not from arch. I tried pinging mail.yahoo.com but I get unknown host. I can't find the answers at the wiki. I tried googling for solution but with no luck. Please help I really want to be full time arch user.

You dug up a 4 year old thread with an unrelated problem (yours is networking related). Please don't do that, read the forum etiquette on the wiki to know what's expected here in these forums.

Closing.

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