# What the Yahoo is going on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 26, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993 "2010-11-26T17:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/1 "2010-11-26T17:11:00Z")
I can’t get anything Yahoo to load on my system. Not [www.yahoo.com](http://www.yahoo.com) (even the top page) not [mail.yahoo.com](http://mail.yahoo.com) not YIM (even on the stand-alone YIM app) Tried it in both Firefox and IE But _everything else_ is working perfectly. “Ok,” I figure, “Yahoo’s down”. I call my dad across town, he logs into yahoo no prob. “Hmmm.” I think. “Ok, there’s something like a firewall issue going on.” So I try my laptop. No change–every non-Yahoo site works fine. Yahoo is dead to me. “Oohh-kay.” I try my iPhone and switch it to 3G, so my network is now irrelevant. “Can’t get on, can’t connect”. Can Yahoo be out in a local area? That makes no sense– [ul] [li]It’s not my ISPs DNS servers 'cause I can get to any other address.[/li][li]It’s not my network or computer because I can’t get to it on 3G on my cellphone. [/li][li]But it’s not Yahoo because my dad can get to it and he’s about 30 miles away. [/ul][/li] Has someone extended an anti-Yahoo field around my house? Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/2 "2010-11-26T17:17:13Z")
Can’t help you, but both Swedish, UK and US Yahoo works fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/3 "2010-11-26T17:19:27Z")
Are you sure your phone didn’t hop onto your Wi-Fi? Unlplug your modem and any other network gear (router/switch/hub) for about a minute, plug it all back in and once you’re back online give it another shot. You might need to do a Control-F5 to refresh the page. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/4 "2010-11-26T17:44:05Z")
Try checking with: [Down for everyone or just me?](http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Faelyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@Faelyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faelyn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/5 "2010-11-26T18:52:56Z")
I have no idea, but it’s not just you. I couldn’t log onto anything yahoo with my laptop at home, but I’m at work now and it works fine. Work is less than half a mile from home. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bleibtreu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bleibtreu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleibtreu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/6 "2010-11-26T19:05:01Z")
Likely a routing issue local to your ISP, or a provider upstream from them. That you can get to other sites through your ISP doesn’t necessarily clear them as the source, and that the nameservers are accessible and operational doesn’t rule out other problems there. While the Internet generally is pretty good at working around such things, it’s possible for the path between any two particular servers to be unpassable from time to time. Run a traceroute to see exactly where the problem is occurring. A good set of instructions on how to do that are here: > **[How to Use the Traceroute Command](https://www.mediacollege.com/internet/troubleshooter/traceroute.html)** > > How to perform a traceroute to a domain or website - this will help identify connection problems. If you run ‘tracert [yahoo.com](http://yahoo.com)’ you’ll first find out whether the IP address is being identified by your ISP’s nameservers, and see the path that’s taken to get packets to that IP address. At some point, you’ll see it fail. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-yahoo-is-going-on/561993/7 "2010-11-26T19:25:35Z")
Either it came back on on it’s own or turning off my cable-modem and router solved the problem. Thanks all!