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Mail.yimg.com has six IP numbers. All of them are on the same IP network. This hostname cnames to geoycs-l.gy1.b.yahoodns.net. e.yimg.com, l.yimg.com, us.yimg.com, ep.yimg.com, xa.yimg.com and at least 16 other hosts point to the same IP. yimg.com is a domain controlled by five nameservers at yahoo.com. All of them are on different IP networks. yimg.com has two IP numbers. They are on different IP networks. mail.yimg.com is hosted on six servers in United States. It is blacklisted in one list.

When I surfed to it, it came up with a blank page. Apparently it is black listed. I hope this helps you understand. It apparently is a mail server for yimg.com. Whoever yimg.com is.

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At least I now know something ... what is the next step? If this page - setting is block how do I/we get into our emails - now the other interesting thing is I can get my emails via my iPhone 3G ... go figure .... I've sent two emails to Yahoo but still no responce other than the auto reply .... I guess it's true whi ever has the ***** rules ... Thanks for your help - Paul Van ****, Sydney Australia

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I had this very same problem with a computer: Safari wouldn't load yahoo and stalled when trying to pull info from l.yimg.com. So I installed Firefox. And it worked...for about 3 weeks. Then it quit. Same thing. So I installed Google Chrome. No access. Three (3) browsers, same machine, no access with the "connecting to l.yimg.com" flag in the corner.

As I was surfing for answers, I found one post that mentioned SonicWall 2040 as the culprit. We're running a SonicWall TZ210w at this site with the Comprehensive Gateway Security settings in place--including AntiSpyware. When I turned off the AntiSpyware piece, all of the browsers blew right through and brought up yahoo with no problem.

My final solution was to set the two IP addresses I found associated with l.yimg.com as allowed and I turned on the AntiSpyware function again.

If you use it, I would remove Sonicwall from the configuration temporarily and see if its a sonicwall issue.

I'm not sure as I didn't spend a lot of time on this, but my suspicions are that something being delivered by Yahoo from those servers is seen as spyware. If you're having problems getting access to Yahoo AND you're running some type of spyware tool, turn it off or disable it.

I also have a report that a small cookie may be the problem.
Tanto70010, if you look cryptodan up in the dictionary, it says cryptodan (noun): A very smart cookie that can be found on the bleeping computer irc channel.

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