Anyone else having trouble with Yahoo links?

[440sixpack]

I am finding that any links that go through Yahoo's redirecting server "rd.yahoo.com" are not working for me, at home or at work, using IE6 and Netscape 7.01, on Win98 and Win2k, and through dialup and T1 connections. This has been going on for weeks if not longer. As an example, a link may be

"http://rd.yahoo.com/search/navbar/nexts/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=resume&b=21&hc=75&hs=1&xargs=02u3hs9yoaKCstSjWzAFC1QsyyctTTIMFUAACqRb4F"

but when I click on it I get a dialog box in Netscape saying "The connection was refused when attempting to contact rd.yahoo.com". In IE6 the message is "The page cannot be displayed. The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."

If I manually copy the link and delete everything up to and including the asterisk before the actual site's http address, it works fine. Any ideas why this is happening or what I can do?

 

[dquan97]

I have the same problem too. I also can't see the images on the Expedia site, even though I can see images everywhere else. That makes planning a honeymoon kinda hard

 

[Skel]

I haven't had any problems with links, though at work we had a bunch of problems with pop up windows not showing anything, there is a dll you have to load....

 

[BillGates]

Do you have Kazaa Lite installed on your PC?? It modifies your HOSTS file and wrecks a lot of Yahoo's page as it redirects all rd.yahoo.com to 127.0.0.1... I learned that a few weeks ago - I hate that program.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Do you have Kazaa Lite installed on your PC?? It modifies your HOSTS file and wrecks a lot of Yahoo's page as it redirects all rd.yahoo.com to 127.0.0.1... I learned that a few weeks ago - I hate that program.

Doh! I've been having this problem too... how do I fix it?

EDIT: Derrr.. nevermind... In XP go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and edit the HOSTS file. It was listed multiple times so just do a search for "yahoo".

 

[440sixpack]

Hey, I bet that's it. What do you edit the HOSTS file to?

 

[BillGates]

You just open the HOSTS file in Notepad and do a Find command and clear out all results that come back with yahoo in the name.... I delete the blank line that is left after you remove the line as well. Save the file and you should be in business.

HOSTS files are basically blank before Kazaa Lite as far as I know so you don't have to worry much about breaking anything.

Here's my default HOSTS file in Win2k Professional:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: 440sixpack
Hey, I bet that's it. What do you edit the HOSTS file to?

notepad is fine.

Make sure you remove ALL instances though since one url may be listed 10 times.

 

[440sixpack]

Thanks guys. Once again the board comes through with obscure and arcane knowledge.