Can't access facebook

[buigiathinh]

Well, I typed the address carelessly, here is another screenshot. With both Firefox 23.0 and Google Chrome. And I just remember that every browser (Firefox, chrome, rekong) can access facebook approximately 1 min at the first time use before this issue.

[life0riley]

OK. The plot thickens. You can access facebook for about one minute the first time before this issue.

So the page automatically reloads?

Let's go back to the first post on this.

Hi guys. I'm an ubuntu user. Few days ago, I decided to install a new distro because I started get bored with unity and gnome. So I chose opensuse 12.3 with kde desktop. Everything worked fine except one thing that I can't access facebook with any web browser and can't connect to facebook account with any IM client. So I moved on to Kubuntu 13.04. The previous issue happened again. I also tried to add ip in hosts file, change dns server to google but nothing worked. So I think this issue belong to KDE. Did anyone face this before? Thanks for your help.

Why you would need to add the IP in the hosts file and change the dns server to google?

I don't have this issue and can't reproduce it.

I googled this issue and saw many complaints that were not limited to KDE distros and even included Windows users. Some of the complaints I saw dated back to 2010. There were suggestions to clear the browser cache and cookies. Enabling secure browsing appears to be the correct solution.

I'm sorry, but I feel like I am guessing here and don't think I have enough information to troubleshoot this.

I am by no means an expert on this. Maybe someone with more knowledge of this can step in.

[tek_heretik]

I'm sorry, but I feel like I am guessing here and don't think I have enough information to troubleshoot this.

I would have to agree, I've never had any kind of problem like this, even with live distros of any flavour, I am thinking facebook got inadvertently blocked somehow, like added to a list of bad sites for example. Quite possibly certificate revocation?

[SteveRiley]

I also tried to add ip in hosts file, change dns server to google but nothing worked.

Please show exactly what you did here. Also, you should know that changes made to /etc/resolv.conf are not permanent unless you modify the configuration of the resolvconf package.

Another troubleshooting step. Please show the output of:

wget -S -U "Mozilla" www.facebook.com

[paperplate9]

OP -

Your linux installs - is this a PC or laptop? If it's a laptop try going to a friend's house or somewhere with wifi to see if you get the same problem. I'm suspecting your internet connection & not your OS.

Are you using a proxy (and/or Tor)?

How many routers/gateways are between you & your ISP? Do you have admin access to all of them (to see if there is some filtering going on). If you can ping facebook, assuming your DNS results aren't hijacked & are actually pointing to the real facebook, HTTP may be blocked or filtered. Or you could have a bad(possibly malicious or possibly misconfigured) default gateway.

Is facebook the only site with this problem? Try sites my like myspace, twitter, instagram, etc. If you see a pattern, I would suspect you have some filtering of social media sites going on.