Can't reach Facebook site, ping works

proxy facebook web-filtering

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Solution 1

Check tor at http://www.torproject.org/ .

Solution 2

If you have access to (or are willing to pay for) a server in a country where Facebook is not restricted, you could set up an SSH Proxy and browse to any site you want. It would use the bandwidth of that server, so make sure the limits aren't too restrictive. Any cheap web hosting plan would work (I've used Dreamhost for it in the past) as long as it has an SSH shell.

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Hossein Moradinia

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Updated on September 17, 2022

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Hossein Moradinia over 1 year

Possible Duplicate:
How do I diagnose not being able to reach a specific website as an end user?

My country has filtered Facebook. When I use ping www.facebook.com, all packets are received correctly, but when I browse to http://www.facebook.com/, I can't see the Facebook site and I'm forwarded to another page. How can I fix this problem?

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- Kknd about 13 years
  
  when you ping DNS hostnames, ping network packets are transmitted as ICMP. but when you visit it as a web site, it is using HTTP, which utilises port 80 or port 443 if on SSL. ICMP may not be blocked, but port 80/443 are.
- Hossein Moradinia about 13 years
  
  Can I Solve it?
Hossein Moradinia about 13 years

And Also It ... :-(
Arvind Jha about 13 years

BackFox is blocked, too? As far as I know, there are more sites like backfox.
Hossein Moradinia about 13 years

Yes.It's Block :-(
Hossein Moradinia about 13 years

And Also It.I Live In Iran.
Pylsa about 13 years

@Daniel I know, but still... could've been an issue with his connection that would render all websites unreachable... Just checking! ;)
Hossein Moradinia about 13 years

It's Good.But Does Not Work
Supercereal about 13 years

pinging "facebook.com" will probably give him the IP of the site he keeps getting redirected to since it is still using his dns servers to to resolve the name. We need to give him the IP from a working dns server.
aabejero about 13 years

@Kyle: which i just did above...
Supercereal about 13 years

^ha..... duh, it was early when I wrote that +1 for a good idea.
Honk about 13 years

TOR is an viable solution, But you must take caution when using TOR. Most TOR endpoints are nefarious.