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Someone please help! Ihad the fb problem for the past few days,but fixed it yesterday by changing the compatibility settings. However,the same problem has occured today,yet my compatibility settings haven't changed

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I joined this thread some time back and none of the solutions worked. When all of a sudden about 2 weeks ago my wife was unable to access her Hotmail - similar situation to the Facebook problem - it was beyond a joke. Both problems were solved by running HijackThis. The resultant list had a whole bunch of lines with "O1" at the start related to the hosts file. I got it to fix all those lines and lo and behold, access to Facebook and Hotmail was restored.

Yep, same problem as many here. I'm getting "can't find the server" and "server is not responding" on facebook.com or, when occasionally I can access the site, other pages on the site. grrr

Mine has just started working again, I had tried messing around with open DNS but couldn't get things to work but then later reset all my DNS settingd. Not sure if that was what fixed it or not. good luck other people.

I've had the same problem - it's to do with domain name servers - otherwise known as 'DNS'. Normally these are sorted out by your Internet Service Provider - ring them and tell them there's a problem. However if you're techie enough it's easy to solve without bothering them - Use a free service such as OpenDNS (www.opendns.com) - it's a matter of going to your router (or modem) 's set up page, and typing in two rows of numbers. You don't need to understand it to sort it - but you do need to follow the instructions carefully if you're not sure what you're doing.Full instructions on OpenDNS's site - Click on 'Get Started'

The problem may lie with your ISP or with your router, and the way it's handling the DNS numbers which are (usually) automatically provided by the ISP - either way they should be able to provide advice.

A domain name server by the way is a device which translates all the web addresses we use - for example www.facebook.com - into the numbers which computer networks understand, so we surf to the same place each time.

Um. I don't speak Techinese....translate for me?

hmmm, better ring my oncall nerd and see if he understands any of that last post.....!

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At my home I have 2 macs and 4 pc's. I hit the same problem today. It only impacted by MACs (Firefox, Safar and Opera). Windows machines were fine I.EI resolved this by changing the DNS servers in my wan Router back to the ISP. I used the Open DNS servers for some months due to local ISP DNS issues. This resolved the issue. To me it was DNS related. Check your dns on your local machine and router and try using 1 of the many free DNS to test. Good luck. Wotzit

I have found that I can get into the site and navigate around, slowly, if I just keep trying over and over again. If it looks like it's timing out, I just go back and click the link again. It's still inconvenient and annoying though, and doesn't really makes any sense..

so... anything that ends with .com and contains the words face or book will not open for me >.< sad... thanks for the suggestions though to try and work around the problem going through different sites. lol luckily i have facebook on my blackberry... i guess this dumbed down version will do for now.