recently when I was trying to upload some pictures in my picasaweb, i didn't succeed and I got the so popular all over the world message "Failed to connect to server, please try again later". After a little debugging with traces, it seems that google have localised the picasaweb upload - Picasa is trying to upload the pictures to the local google server - for example for Bulgaria instead of using picasaweb.google.com it uses picasaweb.google.bg. Unfortunately, google haven't think of the issue that this domain is not created yet (as I see the problem is still active all aroung the world).
I read some posts, tried to change the language in the tools > options, tried to change the Internet explorer settings, but nothing helped with this error.
So my solution was a bit unix - to add a local copy of the domain address in my windows. Windows XP has a file c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , where you can define the ip address of a domain locally. It is the same as unix /etc/hosts file. I just pinged picasaweb.google.com and saw that:
C:\Documents and Settings\Petko>ping picasaweb.google.com
Pinging picasaweb.l.google.com [72.14.255.91] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 72.14.255.91: bytes=32 time=279ms TTL=1
Then I got the IP address 72.14.255.91 and put it in the c:\WINDOWS \system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost 72.14.255.93 picasaweb.google.bg
------------ Please check the ip address in you region, because google have some loadshare settings and the IP address of the domain may be different. Change the .bg extension to your country's one.
I had the same issu, my PC is localized to US but my regional setting is Slovakia. Picasa is trying to connect to picasa.sk which is Slovakia extension - why ??? I have no idea why they do so. It used to work just fine. After I did same thing what you did I was able to connect to server except everything was so so so slow. I'm paying for my account ? what is google thinking ??
> recently when I was trying to upload some pictures in my picasaweb, i > didn't succeed and I got the so popular all over the world message > "Failed to connect to server, please try again later". > After a little debugging with traces, it seems that google have > localised the picasaweb upload - Picasa is trying to upload the > pictures to the local google server - for example for Bulgaria instead > of using picasaweb.google.com it uses picasaweb.google.bg. > Unfortunately, google haven't think of the issue that this domain is > not created yet (as I see the problem is still active all aroung the > world).
> I read some posts, tried to change the language in the tools > > options, tried to change the Internet explorer settings, but nothing > helped with this error.
> So my solution was a bit unix - to add a local copy of the domain > address in my windows. > Windows XP has a file c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , where > you can define the ip address of a domain locally. It is the same as > unix /etc/hosts file. > I just pinged picasaweb.google.com and saw that:
> C:\Documents and Settings\Petko>ping picasaweb.google.com
> Pinging picasaweb.l.google.com [72.14.255.91] with 32 bytes of data:
> Reply from 72.14.255.91: bytes=32 time=279ms TTL=1
> Then I got the IP address 72.14.255.91 and put it in the c:\WINDOWS > \system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. > # > # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. > # > # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each > # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should > # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host > name. > # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one > # space. > # > # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual > # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. > # > # For example: > # > # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server > # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 72.14.255.93 picasaweb.google.bg
> ------------ > Please check the ip address in you region, because google have some > loadshare settings and the IP address of the domain may be different. > Change the .bg extension to your country's one.
> ------------ > Please check the ip address in you region, because google have some > loadshare settings and the IP address of the domain may be different. > Change the .bg extension to your country's one.
> recently when I was trying to upload some pictures in my picasaweb, i > didn't succeed and I got the so popular all over the world message > "Failed to connect to server, please try again later". > After a little debugging with traces, it seems that google have > localised the picasaweb upload - Picasa is trying to upload the > pictures to the local google server - for example for Bulgaria instead > of using picasaweb.google.com it uses picasaweb.google.bg. > Unfortunately, google haven't think of the issue that this domain is > not created yet (as I see the problem is still active all aroung the > world).
> I read some posts, tried to change the language in the tools > > options, tried to change the Internet explorer settings, but nothing > helped with this error.
> So my solution was a bit unix - to add a local copy of the domain > address in my windows. > Windows XP has a file c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts , where > you can define the ip address of a domain locally. It is the same as > unix /etc/hosts file. > I just pinged picasaweb.google.com and saw that:
> C:\Documents and Settings\Petko>ping picasaweb.google.com
> Pinging picasaweb.l.google.com [72.14.255.91] with 32 bytes of data:
> Reply from 72.14.255.91: bytes=32 time=279ms TTL=1
> Then I got the IP address 72.14.255.91 and put it in the c:\WINDOWS > \system32\drivers\etc\hosts:
> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. > # > # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. > # > # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each > # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should > # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host > name. > # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one > # space. > # > # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual > # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. > # > # For example: > # > # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server > # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 72.14.255.93 picasaweb.google.bg
> ------------ > Please check the ip address in you region, because google have some > loadshare settings and the IP address of the domain may be different. > Change the .bg extension to your country's one.
