problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

[Rick Stevens]

Martín Marqués wrote:
>>From the changelog of latest pidgin:
> 
> * Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.5.7-1 - 2.5.7
> with Yahoo Protocol 16 support
> 
> 2009/6/21 Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com>
>> http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/how-to-fix-pidgin-and-yahoo-issues/
>>
>> Found this feed.

That's one way.  Another is to edit your /etc/hosts file and add:

	66.163.181.170	scs.msg.yahoo.com

to it and try reconnecting.
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