Yahoo Feed

[CEC]

Recently my Yahoo! news feed died. I've tried to get back, but to no avail. Google works fine. Wondering if Yahoo! blocks IP addresses and/or if anyone else has has any difficulty with Yahoo!

I had been using the following:
<%assign var="category_name_encoded" value=$category_name|escape:"url"%>
<%block_rss_feed url="http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=keyword1+$category_name_encoded+keyword2&c=&eo =UTF-8" title="$category_name News"

Now I'm using Google, which works, but for several reasons, I rather use Yahoo. Google's is as follows:
<%assign var="category_name_encoded" value=$category_name|escape:"url"%>
<%block_rss_feed url="http://news.google.com/news?tab=wn&hl=en&ned=us&q=keyword1+$category_name _encoded+keyword2&ie=UTF-8&output=rss" title="$category_name News" template="block.rss_feed.html" max_item="4" cache_time="86400"%>

[Bruceper]

It is possible that yahoo is blocking them. A number of users have reported recently that their feed disappeared but had later come back. This could be due to volume as well and Yahoo may be limiting connections if there are too many overall or too many from a particular site if the cache time is set too low.

You have no cache set for the yahoo feed that I can see, so each user visiting the page would request a new version of the feed which could cause problems.

[CEC]

thanks bruce -- just missed the cache in the copy/paste ... same cache as google. i think you're comments are on target. i also use yahoo maps ... keeping my fingers crossed they don't hit that next.

[FSGDAG]

I also had a similar problem to this, but after some investigation, I figured out that it was actually my 'named' service on the server that was causing the problem.

Not sure if it will be true in your case, but just something to look at

[tyankee]

I also had a similar problem to this, but after some investigation, I figured out that it was actually my 'named' service on the server that was causing the problem.

Not sure if it will be true in your case, but just something to look at

what do you mean by 'named service'. my feed stopped working and i can't get it working on www.123findawebdesigner.com.

[Bruceper]

named = DNS server

[FSGDAG]

named = DNS server

Yep! If you have Shared Hosting, you'll want to ask your host if 'named' is working correctly. cPanel did an update over night and caused mine to have issues. It wasn't blatenly apparent that it was 'named' that was the issue. Only a couple dozen domains weren't able to resolve correctly.

[dody]

what is the relation between dns server and yahoo feed? how can it cause problem?

[Bruceper]

It was probably the lookup records got corrupted if it was a caching named server. A flush should fix it, as that would force it to look at the servers nameserver to do lookups.

[FSGDAG]

It was probably the lookup records got corrupted if it was a caching named server. A flush should fix it, as that would force it to look at the servers nameserver to do lookups.

DING DING DING!!! Bruce is our winner!

It just wasn't obvious that was the issue... It was actually the very last thing I checked because most FQDN's were resolving correctly... Then after looking through some logs hoping to find anything that was the cause, I saw cPanel did an update that night of the named service along with a few other things and a light bulb clicked on

[Bruceper]

Some days it may not sound like it, but sometimes I really do know what the heck I am doing.