If anyone out there can't connect to Yahoo Instant Messenger:

[wolfwings]

Yahoo is upgrading their login servers piecemeal to force use of a Captcha to log in on their web-interface, and changing their IM login protocol entirely at the same time. The new protocol is already understood, but nothing out there currently supports it except Yahoo's official client still.

This page explains the situation in a bit more detail, though the list of IP's seems out of date. Only the very last one at the end worked for me.

Oh... and on a side-note, I need name suggestions! The husky I was romping around RCFM as is officially becoming mine, but the poor fellow lacks a name! It can't be WolfWings, since that's being made already and is distinctly NOT a husky... so... name suggestions? I suck at naming things. =-.-=

Comments

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Malla Mutt?

Hrm... maybe.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Hair too cutesy for my initial liking, but not out of the question either.

[jurann.livejournal.com]

YIM has been working fine for me all day/night... And I'm on Trillian Pro.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Well, there's multiple routes to punch into Yahoo, and it's all these IP's tied to one DNS. Some areas are gettin' REALLY lucky, others (like the midwest and some on the east coast seaboard areas) are just utterly hosed I'm hearing.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/dognames.html

pakak 'one that gets into everything'
pamiiruq 'wags his tail'

:)

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

More tempted by 'hey' actually, since it means Winter/Ice and with the ice-blue stripe separating the black and white. That, and it'd be fun to see looks of confusion that that's the character's name. =^.^=

[uplinktruck.livejournal.com]

Dagget.