Blocked site, how to unblock it?

[sk3pt1c]

hi there, a friend of mine said she logged onto a pub's wifi last night and since then she can't access Facebook at home, neither via Wifi nor via LAN...

the message she's getting is "website blocked by filter"

this happens across all her browsers

there's only one account on her mac, so there's no chance someone did the parental thingy to mess with her and she says her hosts file is ok too...

any ideas?

 

[MisterMe]

Have your friend to clear the cookies in her browser.

 

[sk3pt1c]

Didn't work... I told her to uninstall/reinstall her browsers, let's see...

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Have your friend flush her DNS cache.

This can be done from the command line by launching Terminal, then running:
dscacheutil -flushcache

 

[sk3pt1c]

she said that didn't work either, i don't know if she's uninstalled/reinstalled her browsers...

either something's really weird or she's doing all this wrong

 

[dukebound85]

can she access it using a proxy site like this one?

http://www.surfagain.com/

 

[GGJstudios]

she said that didn't work either, i don't know if she's uninstalled/reinstalled her browsers...

either something's really weird or she's doing all this wrong

If she cleared her cookies and cache, and verified that her DNS servers are accurate in her computer/router, there should be nothing blocking her access to the site. My bet is that she didn't do one of those things properly.

 

[FourCandles]

Have your friend flush her DNS cache.

This can be done from the command line by launching Terminal, then running:
dscacheutil -flushcache

If she cleared her cookies and cache, and verified that her DNS servers are accurate in her computer/router, there should be nothing blocking her access to the site. My bet is that she didn't do one of those things properly.

Just on the offchance that your friend is running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or earlier, the command will be different - it is:
lookupd -flushcache

 

[sk3pt1c]

thanks everyone, i've given her a link to this thread and told her to try everything and suggest that if she's not that comfortable with the terminal and stuff, i could connect to her mac remotely and do it for her...
waiting on her reply, she's probably not up yet (she's in the UK)

 

[sk3pt1c]

apparently, flushing the DNS cache worked after a restart, so there

she sends thanks to all of you guys!