Update on July 3: It's back again, but not quite stable. There are occasionally package loss in the data transmission.

Anyway, I hope I was wrong, I hope it's just a little mistake of the censorship system. But for the damn censorship, my Application would get more users ;)

Update on July 2: It’s totally down now. The other 2 IPs are also blocked. Take a look at this screenshot:

My ping result:

however, seems the Application server is "a little safer" than others :)

My tracert result:

C:\Users\awflasher>tracert 69.63.178.11

Tracing route to www.facebook.com [69.63.178.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1     9 ms     7 ms     7 ms  221.223.96.1
2     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  61.148.36.85
3     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  61.148.5.209
4     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  61.148.154.17
5     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  202.96.12.197
6    51 ms    51 ms    51 ms  219.158.7.178
7   151 ms   151 ms   150 ms  219.158.3.118
8     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Update on July 1: It's okay now, 2:58PM. Facebook.com now changed a new IP at 69.63.178.11. I am sorry if this post cause any inconvenience.

But they still blocked one IP(69.63.176.140) from Facebook: take a look at this pictures:

ping from inside China:

ping from outside China:

It's really a pity that I cannot access www.facebook.com. It's blocked just now on June 30, 2008.

It's "Beijing time 12:52PM".

I am just a web developer. I am not at all interested in political issues. But how can they just completely block a whole site? It's so rude!

My first Facebook Application is going to ship, what a pity!

It seems that only the www server is effected. The app server and developers server are all available and very fast.

some screenshots:

Ping from One of my server hosted inside the U.S:

Ping from China:

Tracert from China:

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Nick
2008-06-29 22:27:51

This sucks!!!

Frank.zhang
2008-06-29 23:48:31

I can get access to Facebook.com smoothly,located in Hunan,netcom user.

2008-06-29 23:50:43

They changed an IP, it's okay now.

Thanks for your response, let me update this post anyway.

Angke
2008-06-30 06:30:57

Surprise, surprise

2008-06-30 07:20:16

[...] 更新:据ifgogo.com报道,facebook已经更换了一个IP:69.63.178.11。用它可以访问facebook.com。但是中文版界面http://zh-cn.facebook.com依旧无法访问。 [...]

2008-06-30 10:45:42

[...] IfGoGo, an English-language blog run by some Chinese developers I met last month, has screenshots of the error message they were seeing [...]

2008-06-30 18:14:16

[...] IfGoGo, an English-language blog run by some Chinese developers I met last month, has screenshots of the error message they were seeing. [...]

c
2008-07-01 04:35:05

i still can't log into facebook. what's up?

2008-07-01 05:02:30

you may need to change an IP to avoid this situation.

2008-07-01 08:05:40

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klm
2008-07-06 05:17:50

i can access 69.63.178.11 but error after login.

Really frust to online in china, the website i need to access got block for most of time, even a newspaper.

2008-07-06 05:46:31

Yes ... I hope this situation could be improved in the future. I am sorry to hear all your complaint about the trouble in China :(

alvin
2008-07-06 05:39:15

I cant access to facebook most of the time and the connection is damn slow. WTF?

Hainan, Haikou

2008-07-06 05:45:39

Try another IP?

alvin
2008-07-06 08:02:56

How to change IP?

2008-07-06 08:08:21

Change the host file on your system. You may take a search, it's easy :)

2008-07-08 21:33:44

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fang
2008-07-13 22:48:32

I am in South Korea. Facebook is also totally not accessable. Same to Aw Guo.. It looks not a problem only in China, but global one.. We can find some topics from google..

2008-07-17 07:00:53

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Oat
2008-07-20 19:47:37

Can anyone please help find a way to log onto facebook while in China? Please kindly post on the blog so that we can have access to facebook.
Aw Guo, what do you suggest we do? Is there anyway we can log on?
Thank you.

klm
2008-07-21 02:50:34

Yes, facebook has changed ip to 69.63.178.11 / 12. IP end with 140 seems removed.
It's supposed to work.

However, came with another problem. Not all the time could access through, even though we could get respond from PING function.

A friend of mine suggested that i clear histories and cookies whenever the problem exist. Sound troublesome, should work.

LuYing
2008-07-25 22:56:25

so whats actually goin on with facebook?
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt.
im a pure noob for coms so be specific. X)
thanks.

hangzhou, china.