Comments on: Fix your Yahoo Messenger on Pidgin for Ubuntu

By: bob

bob — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:28:56 +0000

Whoa! Thanks for that info Marc. :no1:

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000

Well the fix actually seems to work, thanks for that.

Yet, some considerations:

cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com resolves to three IP addresses in 202.43.216.xxx, which is a network range that belongs to (according to WHOIS):

route: 202.43.216.0/23
descr: Yahoo China
country: CN
origin: AS10228
mnt-by: MAINT-AP-YAHOO-INC
changed: gnelson@yahoo-inc.com 20030813
source: APNIC

It is known that china based subsidiaries of international ISPs play by the rules as set forth by the Chinese government and law – and since they want to stay in business, the better had to.

Given that “communication privacy” (read internet censorship) is a say “controversial” topic in China, we can all imagine where this might lead to (Deep Packet Inspection and Interception, anyone?).

Personally, I am reluctant to perform my login process over a server that is in China, even if this means that I’ll be without YM for a while.

best regards

Marc

By: bob

bob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:43:31 +0000

No Problem jane! :no1:

Yeah, yahoohuhu. Lol. Apparently YM dished out their client versions 6 and 7 from what I’ve heard. And they’ve managed to upgrade their servers. Waw. Me pera ang Y! ah. :gg:

By: Ape Jei

Ape Jei — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:51:23 +0000

our beloved Yahoo.

By: jane

jane — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:08:39 +0000

hey thanks for this one ^__^