Hi, My name is Drake, and I'm a trill-a-holic.
This is as good a place as any, my little work around for Yahell’s issues. This works for a few others AIM/ICQ I think...
Today I got an error code 0 and could not connect to Yahoo. After fiddling with it for about 30 minutes I got it to work... in doing so I pulled up a command prompts and did the following
I got a time out. For some reason I was not able to communicate with the yahoo server that is configured in Trillian. So then I opened up yahoo's java version of it's messenger. (you can do this by going to
http://messenger.yahoo.com and clicking on 'launch yahoo! web messenger beta) then did this command at the dos prompt...
in one of the lines I saw this
Code:
cs62.msg.sc5.yahoo.com:5050
So I knew I was connecting to yahoo, but not the csc.yahoo.com as it should be. So I went into the preferences of my yahoo connection and changed the csc.yahoo.com to cs5.yahoo.com and left the port to 5050 and presto...it works
Here is a trick I did when my company decided they did not want any instant messenger traffic. It worked for Y! AIM and ICQ but not MSN, did not try w/ Jabber cause my jabber is internal.
In the connection preferences of each medium I changed the port number to 80. Some of these guys allow connecting at that port -don't ask why. Port 80 is just your standard http traffic (such as going to
www.bigblueball.com) so most firewalls allow port 80 traffic. Presto.
Did ANY of that make sense??
Thanx for letting me share!
