Yahoo quote server not responding

[DiFraser]

Today, the Yahoo quote server is not responding. The intlog3 shows Server used but did not update any prices. That was for symbol IBM. It has been happening all day with all symbols. Have they changed the syntax of the download request?

[Mark]

Hi DiFraser,

This sounds like it might be the same problem being mentioned here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3589

The Yahoo server appears to be working fine from my location. It may however be that you are accessing a different server, that is having trouble. If you open up a CMD window and type:

ping download.finance.yahoo.com

do you get a reply? What is the IP address you get a reply from? If it is different than:

208.71.44.31

You can try forcing your system to use the above IP address for Yahoo. This is the IP address my system is using, and it is working fine. You would have to modify your hosts file. If this doesn't sound like something you want to try, you can just wait for Yahoo to get this server working, or switch to a different quote server. If you do want to try modifying your hosts file, open up this file:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

To do this, start Notepad as an admin (right mouse click on Notepad, and choose "Run as Administrator"). Once you open up that hosts file, add this at the very bottom:

208.71.44.31 download.finance.yahoo.com

Save the file, and try your price update again. This is forcing your system to use a particular IP address for the Yahoo server, instead of requesting an address from a DNS server.

[suebrooks39887]

I just retrieved using Reuters. Took longer but it worked.

[DiFraser]

Thank you, that resolved the issue. I had to create a copy of hosts in my documents and copy it into etc after I updated it. It wouldn't let me save the altered copy into etc directly.

[DiFraser]

We used google for today, but Yahoo is much faster when it is working correctly. Google is one symbol at a time.