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Wayne replied on July 04, 2008 22:41 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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.

Chris replied on April 29, 2008 08:44 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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

Fill replied on April 18, 2008 12:45 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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.

Captainfun replied on April 14, 2008 21:31 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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.

Jrhather replied on March 30, 2008 22:21 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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

Fill replied on March 30, 2008 18:02 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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

popstar01 replied on March 29, 2008 20:57 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

Hello There

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

jeskaeli replied on March 28, 2008 14:30 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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..

jbrooks138 replied on March 28, 2008 02:27 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

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.

Snaps replied on March 28, 2008 01:33 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

Same here. No matter which browser I use on my personal PC (Safari, IE, or Firefox), I cannot get into my account after I enter my user id and password. I am able to login using my computer at work, but not at home.
I have found a way though to get logged in to facebook using the mobile route. It gives limited info about your account, but at least it allows me to login. The link is:

http://m.facebook.com/index.php?logge...

But once there, look at the bottom of that page, where it asks if you are having problems logging in, there is a hyperlink to log in using HTTP. You must click on the HTTP log in link and then enter your user id and password from there. This will log you in, but as I say, this is not the full access to your account; only the limited mobile information.

Hope this helps some of you as well as frustrated as I am. I'll be checking back here also for a possible fix. Oh, I've also sent in feedback/help into facebook. I got an automated response that they received my request. I'll await a response and will post it once received.

jeskaeli replied on March 24, 2008 17:52 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

I am also having the same problem. I can occasionally get to the login page, but once i try to login it just waits endlessly at 'static.ak.facebook.com'. It started with random pages timing out, but now it has progressed to complete unavailability. I haven't been able to access facebook on my personal pc for weeks. But downstairs on my girlfriend's laptop there are no problems. I have no idea what is wrong. I'll be watching this thread to see if someone comes up with a solution.

Fill replied on March 18, 2008 00:03 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

oh yeah, problems first started with texas hold'em not working - giving me a 'port 6996' or something error for a few days before the whole thing packed in. The last thing i did was add the fake 'profile watcher' application before complete failure.

any ideas!?

Fill replied on March 17, 2008 23:54 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

hmmmm, also same problem for three weeks. very annoying. also tried multiple setting changings also, no joy.
no joy when i use explorer either.
all quite strange.

Jrhather replied on March 13, 2008 21:46 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

Same problem.
I can't even search for topics with the word Facebook. I have to do this from work.

Who here is on Bell Symaptico??
I have my discussion elsewhere on this problem
http://www.uodemise.com/forum/showthr...
check it out and lemme know if this sounds familiar to you.

sssxsss replied on March 01, 2008 19:08 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

I've sort of found a 'solution' to the problem but maybe because I'm lucky, we have desktop anywhere like most universities, which means I can access university computers anywhere so once desktop anywhere is loaded I can access the internet through it and facebook and hotmail are fine. Not really a solution as such but its letting me access them so can't complain.

sssxsss replied on March 01, 2008 18:48 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

I've gradually been able to access less and less of the site over the last 4 or 5 days, now I can't access it at all! Its only on my desktop, its fine on my bro's laptop and we're on the same router. Its not only facebook though its the same with hotmail.com, I'm not sure if this is due to the same thing but when I load hotmail its just a blank page and it says 'Done' on the bottom left side of the screen. With facebook its a case of forever loading. What the hell couid it be !!?!?!

Sydney72 replied on February 25, 2008 16:27 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

I'm so relieved to know I'm not the only one with this problem! I can access any site except for facebook.com. It allows me to enter my name and my password, but then it won't load. It keeps acting like it's trying to, but nothing happens. It's so frustrating!! I can log-in fine at home, but it's a pain to do it there since I only have dial-up. Could someone please help us all?!!

ve replied on February 24, 2008 14:57 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

Hi, I have the same problem, the website gets stuck before even loading anything and waits endlessly for "static.ak.facebook"... tried Firefox IE and tried changing firewall settings, cookies and cache, but it just happened overnight, not after I changed any settings. it seems that the problem is not from the browsers but from above, somewhere...

tip: To be able to access my account anyway (its limited but enough!) try http://m.facebook.com/ which is teh mobile gateway.

till it resolves itself...

Eric Suesz replied on February 20, 2008 18:07 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

megbie: It might make sense to create a new topic. We might be able to get it more visibility in the system if it's a new topic and not added on to this particular Facebook problem.

megbie replied on February 20, 2008 15:06 to the problem "I can't get access to the facebook site" in Facebook:

My firefox gave me this message when I tried to load my profile. Other things like photos and applications can be accessed: -

"The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address
in a way that will never complete.

* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies."

Any ideas?