Bug 176263

Summary:	kopete will not login to my yahoo account it says name lookup failed
Product:	[Applications] kopete	Reporter:	Larry <pan.rider>
Component:	Yahoo Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, hussam.al, otto, tejasdinkar
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Larry 2008-11-27 20:18:58 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.10)
Compiler:          Kubuntu hardy heron with all safe upgrades 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

some days it logs in.but most times even with me logged in to my yahoo account kopete will nott login.it just keeps saying name lookup failed.it should log in every time

Comment 1 Tejas Dinkar 2008-12-01 19:42:07 UTC

I don't think that this is a problem of Kopete

Kopete makes a connection to:
scs.msg.yahoo.com

Which needs to first be resolved via DNS. When you get this error, immediately try to "ping scs.msg.yahoo.com" from konsole, and you should get a similar error.

Comment 2 Otto Pfeiffer 2009-01-04 12:45:43 UTC

Using Kopete on several Suse 11.0 systems with KDE 3.5.10 "release 33.1" i got same login problems , tried to ping scs.msg.yahoo.com but got correct reply. So this is not a connection problem. One of my systems is running on suse 11.1 with newest KDE 3.5, no login problems there. ( Tried with Kopete for KDE 3.5 and Kopete for KDE4 - both are connecting to my yahoo account ) Checking box to not use standard connection settings and choosing scs.msg.yahoo.com do not work too.

Comment 3 Andre Duffeck 2009-02-04 10:25:37 UTC

*** Bug 178619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Matt Rogers 2010-01-17 04:18:17 UTC

yahoo updated their protocol to discontinue the use of scs.msg.yahoo.com, so that server won't work. yahoo login works perfectly fine currently.