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Cannot access Facebook via Mountain Lion

Running 10.8.2 on a MBP 5,1. At first, I had no trouble. At some point, I became unable to access facebook from any browser- chrome, safari, or firefox. Chrome gives the response "This webpage is not available. Google Chrome could not load the webpage because www.facebook.com took too long to respond. The website may be down, or you may be experiencing issues with your Internet connection." i.e. the response I'd expect to get from any url without an internet connection. However, I can access Facebook just fine in Windows 7 via bootcamp and iOS. Other variables- I had a Facebook related extension called social fixer installed on chrome, but doubt this is the problem. Firefox and safari did not have the extension, and did not work either. In Windows 7, I kept the extension, and facebook still worked. I did a bit of research and really couldn't find much on this problem. Tried a few simple things, clearing cache, cookies etc., rebooting... no dice. Help appreciated! Thank you in advance!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Dec 20, 2012 11:16 PM

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Jan 7, 2013 8:36 AM in response to Linc Davis

hey linc,

i'm having the same issue and followed the instructions you gave to andrew but it didn't work. could you possibly help me out on this..

lookup:

Lookup has started…


Trying "www.facebook.com"

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46855

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0


;; QUESTION SECTION:

;www.facebook.com. IN ANY


;; ANSWER SECTION:

www.facebook.com. 188 IN CNAME star.c10r.facebook.com.


Received 58 bytes from 4.2.2.1#53 in 31 ms


ping:

Ping has started…


PING www.facebook.com (69.171.228.74): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Request timeout for icmp_seq 3

Request timeout for icmp_seq 4

Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

Request timeout for icmp_seq 6

Request timeout for icmp_seq 7

Request timeout for icmp_seq 8


--- www.facebook.com ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


i'm at work now but when i get home i will post the DNS settings for my router (though its not working anywhere, not just my home router)

Cannot access Facebook via Mountain Lion

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