Facebook...

jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:56 am

OKay, so after 3 years of mysteriously being unable to login to Facebook, or even google the word for that matter, my friend Miles managed to get me on. Even he doesn't get why it worked...

He added an 's' to the http. (https) Thats it.

Problem is, every time the page reloads, Mozilla auto-corrects to http and I have to manually add the 's'.

Any way to disable it auto-correcting and simply have it STAY https?
...and WHY would that work?

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:05 am

hmm...

http://www.facebook.com/ should work fine. Ive been on facebook for something like 4 years.

Sounds like something you did to your browser settings. Have you tried a different browser?

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Dollpartz · Post by **Dollpartz** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:27 pm

All of the above suck equally.

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d. · Post by d. » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:53 pm

Dollpartz wrote:All of the above suck equally.

QFT =]

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:03 pm

onykage wrote:hmm...

http://www.facebook.com/ should work fine. Ive been on facebook for something like 4 years.

Sounds like something you did to your browser settings. Have you tried a different browser?

Put it to you this way. There are 3 desktops wired to our router and one wireless laptop.

Vicky's desk and lappy cannot connect to FB. My desk cannot connect to FB. My landlord has had no problem ever.

Vicky goes to school, and can connect without a problem, via her lappy.
Other people come over and use their lappys on our wireless connection...and can get on FB without a problem.

At one point I disabled all of my security and tried IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Chrome. None have worked.

I was unable to connect to FB with my comp fresh out of the box. Same thing with Vicky's lappy. Brand new, no settings fucked with from factory...cannot connect.

If I were to Google the word "Facebook", or click on that mighty link you posted, all I get is "Connection Interrupted, The document contains no data. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."

I don't have this problem with ANY other website.

No one has been able to figure this out in 3 years.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:05 pm

jrhather wrote:
onykage wrote:hmm...

http://www.facebook.com/ should work fine. Ive been on facebook for something like 4 years.

Sounds like something you did to your browser settings. Have you tried a different browser?
Put it to you this way. There are 3 desktops wired to our router and one wireless laptop.

Vicky's desk and lappy cannot connect to FB. My desk cannot connect to FB. My landlord has had no problem ever.

Vicky goes to school, and can connect without a problem, via her lappy.
Other people come over and use their lappys on our wireless connection...and can get on FB without a problem.

At one point I disabled all of my security and tried IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Chrome. None have worked.

I was unable to connect to FB with my comp fresh out of the box. Same thing with Vicky's lappy. Brand new, no settings fucked with from factory...cannot connect.

If I were to Google the word "Facebook", or click on that mighty link you posted, all I get is "Connection Interrupted, The document contains no data. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."

I don't have this problem with ANY other website.

No one has been able to figure this out in 3 years.

So concentrating on that laptop, you are saying that it can't connect to FB from your home but that same laptop can connect to FB when connected from somewhere else?

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:56 pm

dprantl wrote: So concentrating on that laptop, you are saying that it can't connect to FB from your home but that same laptop can connect to FB when connected from somewhere else?

Yup. And other people can come to our network and connect to FB without a hitch.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:44 pm

jrhather wrote:
dprantl wrote: So concentrating on that laptop, you are saying that it can't connect to FB from your home but that same laptop can connect to FB when connected from somewhere else?
Yup. And other people can come to our network and connect to FB without a hitch.

Sounds like your router is singling out some MAC addresses and filtering FB for them. Can you change the MAC address on the NIC on the laptop?

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:10 pm

dprantl wrote: Sounds like your router is singling out some MAC addresses and filtering FB for them. Can you change the MAC address on the NIC on the laptop?

And in English that would be?

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:49 am

jrhather wrote:
dprantl wrote: Sounds like your router is singling out some MAC addresses and filtering FB for them. Can you change the MAC address on the NIC on the laptop?
And in English that would be?

Get a new NIC card (Network card).

Mac adresses are hardwired to NIC cards (At least I think its a blanket truth, but if not then at least its true the vast majority of the time.)

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:46 am

Plastic Man wrote:
jrhather wrote:
dprantl wrote: Sounds like your router is singling out some MAC addresses and filtering FB for them. Can you change the MAC address on the NIC on the laptop?
And in English that would be?
Get a new NIC card (Network card).

Mac adresses are hardwired to NIC cards (At least I think its a blanket truth, but if not then at least its true the vast majority of the time.)

Actually, even though all NICs have MAC addresses burned into them, a lot of them allow you to specify your own that will override the default. For example, my Intel Pro 1000 MT network adapter has the option "Locally Administered Address" under the advanced tab.

On your laptop, open device manager, right-click on the network adapter and select Properties. Then go to the advanced tab and see if there is an option like this that will let you set your own MAC address. If it does, change it to something like "01 B1 1B 2E C4 F2". I just made that up; you don't have to use exactly that but it must be 12 hex characters.

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Colors of Wanker · Post by **Colors of Wanker** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:04 am

I met my wife through Myspace but they all still suck....

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:06 pm

ummm.. NO

you dont need a nic. And Mac forwarding ??? seriously, does anyone reading this forum know anything about networking or the difference between wan and lan? Mac forwarding, thats a good one.

ok, this is simple.

open a command prompt (start>run>cmd)

type ping www.facebook.com

If you time out then 1 of 2 things have happened. 1 you accidentally or someone as a joke ip blocked facebook (probably not)

Facebook banned your ip address for spam. (most probably)

easy fix. unplug your modem for 15 minutes, and then plug it back in. This will force an ip reset. If that doesnt work, then call your ISP and have them force a new IP.

Problem solved.

ps if that doesnt work then hard reset your router.... If you notice your banned from facebook soon after your able to access it again, then one of your computers has a virus on it that is spamming facebook. In which case, if you keep tring to connect to them they will ban your whole subset, at which time your S.O.L. Cus they are not gonna remove the ban.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:18 am

Not MAC forwarding, but MAC filtering of selected destinations. The first mention of the word "forwarding" was in your post above. It is pretty easy for someone that doesn't understand networking to fool with an advanced router setup and cause this, in fact I've seen it happen. It has nothing to do with the difference between LAN and WAN. For example, I could stop just one of the computers on my network from accessing facebook in 30 seconds based on its MAC address if I wanted to. And I wouldn't even have to do it through the router's GUI, a simple iptables command would be all that is required. Onykage, just because you've never seen something happen doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

Anyway, what you suggested cannot be happening. Either you missed that other people that come over with their laptops and connect to his router can access facebook just fine, or you are the one that is confused about WAN vs. LAN networking. If facebook banned his address, it would be his WAN address meaning no computer connected to his router would have access.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:53 am

dprantl wrote:Anyway, what you suggested cannot be happening. Either you missed that other people that come over with their laptops and connect to his router can access facebook just fine, or you are the one that is confused about WAN vs. LAN networking. If facebook banned his address, it would be his WAN address meaning no computer connected to his router would have access.

***beltch***

MM k, well I suppose I might have miss read something. But when I answer a question I always answer it in a way to cover if I miss read or miss understood some other detail, and one that covers the bases. Mac filtering, IP tables, Subset forwarding, its all the same. The baseline is simple, A can not see B. Further, the notion that a piece of Silicon emery covered with copper foil with a welded array of switches, limiters, gates, and a quartz crystal, that is going to pull the number 69.63.176.140 out of the 13.6 VDC field that surrounds it, is absurd.

JR.. PM me and I will send you a brand new Linksys router free of charge. I will also configure your router as well. Much easier then trying to debug your router over a forum.

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d. · Post by d. » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:01 pm

onykage wrote:JR.. PM me and I will send you a brand new Linksys router free of charge. I will also configure your router as well. Much easier then trying to debug your router over a forum.

Now that's what I call service!

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:02 pm

onykage wrote:JR.. PM me and I will send you a brand new Linksys router free of charge. I will also configure your router as well. Much easier then trying to debug your router over a forum.

Thanks, but no need.

Tada.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:53 pm

lol, DNS. Do you have your router IP set as the first DNS server in your network card properties under TCP/IP?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:42 pm

check your host file.

Maybe you have the FML.socialnetworking.kill.vbs virus, which disables access to social networking sites.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:09 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:check your host file.

Maybe you have the FML.socialnetworking.kill.vbs virus, which disables access to social networking sites.

lol, exactly what I was about to say. Looks from that like www.facebook.com and facebook.com are pointed at 127.0.0.1.

check the host file definately.

C:WindowsSystem32driversecthost

or

notepad.exe c:WindowsSystem32driversecthost

You can use this host file to replace the current one. It will block most of the malicious ads on websites.

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

I use it and it works like a charm.

Do let us know if you see something like the following in your hostfile tho

Code: Select all

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com

You may want to try http://housecall.trendmicro.com as well to see if it sees anything out of place. Please keep in mind any locally installed virus prevention utils will have been compromised and quite possibly will ignore some threads.

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:42 pm

Which one? hosts, hosts.msn, imhosts.sam are all 'sample files' BTW, vista.

I've opened all of them and none say anything about facebook. In fact, they are all nearly empty.

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ggkthx · Post by **ggkthx** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:03 pm

Vista you might have to edit the security settings on your hosts file too to be able to edit it.

But then change them back when you're done. Its under Properties on the file.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:54 pm

ok first lets turn on file extensions

click organize>folder and search options>view

uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for known file types"

next delete any file named hosts.whatever, keep only the file named "hosts". It doenst have an extension.

view the sample host file in the link above. Right click in the web browser and click "select all", then right click again and click "copy"

next from the start>all programs>accessories>notepad right click notepad and run as administrator.

open the hosts file. File>open

right click and click "select all".

Hit the "Del" key

right click and click paste, or you can do it from edit>paste.

save the file as "hosts" and dont add an extension. You should be able to just File>save or hit "ctrl+s".

close and re-open your browser of choice, and try facebook again.

IF this does not work, then you need to check the firewall settings you have set. This will be in control panel>firewall. Personally I would tell you to disable it all together. Make sure facebook is not blocked. If you have a anti virus util check its settings as well. If you dont know that much about your anti virus util and you have one installed, completely uninstall it, reboot the computer and try again. You can always reinstall the program.

If non of that works, I dont know what else to tell you myself. You can try a new Nic but I doubt that will help at all. But desperate measures call for desperate actions.

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