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What is a "Socket Failure" error? - drewk112986 - 06-15-2014 05:32 PM
Every once in awhile when I'm trying to read an article on Yahoo, the page fails to load and provides the following error:
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ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL.
The following error was encountered:
Socket Failure
The system returned:
(98) Address already in use
Squid is unable to create a TCP socket, presumably due to excessive load. Please retry your request.
Your cache administrator is yahoo-dev-null@yahoo-inc.com.
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What does this error mean and why am I getting it?
- patrick p - 06-15-2014 05:39 PM
Funny, this just started happening to me a few minutes ago. Tried to pull up a certain political article on yahoo that I commented on--now my comment is gone (it was there yesterday) and when I try to pull up the pertaining article I get the same "Socket Failure" nonsense as you.
- Reef - 06-15-2014 05:50 PM
Has to do with yahoo gemini being released today. All of yahoo's services use port 91 to communicate but gemini isn't closing the one that its on and trying up network traffic.
- William - 06-15-2014 05:56 PM
I'm having the same problem.
Unable access Yahoo finance at all.
- JWM - 06-15-2014 06:05 PM
about 3:30 EST--- and though YMail still (intermittently) worked---almost all content on Yahoo addresses had servers that were unreachable or returned the above noted socket failures....only links off of Y-servers would work....system was useless....
not looking good for a new (unwanted from my side of the system) product....or for Yahoo in general...
- Jock - 06-15-2014 06:18 PM
It means yahoo is updating servers
- JPY - 06-15-2014 06:20 PM
I'm having the same problem. It's not your computer, it's a Yahoo problem. Yahoo's home page is all screwed up but what else is new. Yahoo needs to fire lots of people who are incompetent and can't keep their services working. I think it's time to change my homepage. I get frustrated all the time with problems.
- Monomani - 06-15-2014 06:34 PM
Ah so, this is caused by fixing things that ain't broke ... I bet! ðŸŽ