Error -105 when trying to play youtube videos

[BDK]

And here's a youtube video for you showing the problem.
Nothing wrong with my internet connection, in fact, it's awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lvf8o-O7XM

[Cyber-Freak]

doesn't appear to be effecting anything on my end

[Cyber-Freak]

in order to not be completely useless... check this link... http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/322195-steam-error-105-a.html

[BDK]

Funny thing, watching the video I posted I get no errors. So it must be because it's trying to connect to googles ad service which I have blocked. So this new update is far too sensitive to that sort of thing it seems. Shame.

[Darko]

I'm having this same issue, both in the overlay and in the client itself. The weird part is that it starts loading the page, it may even start playing a bit of the video sometimes and then suddenly I get redirected to an error page

[alfred]

Error -105 is a DNS resolution error, it means you tried to request a url and the domain name of the host failed to resolve. Try changing your DNS servers on your machine to the public google ones, perhaps your local ISP's dns is having intermittent issues?

[Darko]

But the thing is that in a regular browser like firefox or chrome I have no problems at all, it only happens on the Steam client (and particularly, in the beta client, doesn't happen in the normal one)

[BDK]

Originally posted by alfred:

Error -105 is a DNS resolution error, it means you tried to request a url and the domain name of the host failed to resolve. Try changing your DNS servers on your machine to the public google ones, perhaps your local ISP's dns is having intermittent issues?

I use OpenDNS. Anyway as Darko already mentioned, only the browser in steam will completely kill the connection if it cant reach an ad server (instead of just moving on like a regular browser).

[Avy]

Originally posted by Darko:

I'm having this same issue, both in the overlay and in the client itself. The weird part is that it starts loading the page, it may even start playing a bit of the video sometimes and then suddenly I get redirected to an error page

Same here. Only i'm not using beta, i'm using normal client. Firefox and other apps outside Steam work fine :/

[sereal]

yep having the same issue wiht multiple sites. youtube, 9gag, gamefaqs,...

[username]

Same here.. i have Google's DNS server inserted with no results so far.. it is annoying.

[sereal]

noone else having this issue? come on...
works flawlessly outside steam. just not in the overlay browser..

[Avy]

Today suddenly it started to work. No Steam update, nothing :/

[sereal]

ah ok solved it. I'm using a hostfile with a fair amount of advert sites being redirected to 127.0.0.1 -> less anoying banner spam on websites.
apparently (now) steam browser does not like this and goes "blarg!" (in rochelle terms)

I think this should be fixed tho. No other browser cancels loading the rest of the page and just presents you a "one-liner".

[BDK]

Yep. Not chaning my adblocker as the issue is clearly with steam.

[Lee Harvey Awpwald]

If you have HOSTS file entries redirecting ad servers to 127.0.0.1, you can fix the error -105 by simply running a private HTTP server on port 80 of your computer when you play (don't open it up to the public network, just your private). This will stop Chrome's internal 404 errors and will display local server displayed 404 errors instead. So on pages you will see the 404 errors where the ads are supposed to be, instead of having the whole page replaced with the -105 error code.

One way to do is to install XAMPP or something similar, or just the barebones apache HTTPD server and let it serve proper 404 messages.

Alternatively you can run a python script to do this for you:

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 80

class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):

def MyHandler(self):
self.error_message_format = ""

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), MyHandler)

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()