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HistoryEdited Mar 16, 2009 3:58 PM by Jim Peterson…

Facebook is Blocked!

This past Thursday and Friday night I got several polite requests for more information on why Facebook was blocked. As you may have noticed Facebook made several changes to its user interface. With those cosmetic changes came several changes to how it served up its pages. Obviously, they did not tell Holland Christian about the changes before they made them. Two different servers blocked it at the same time. First, it was blocked by our internal proxy server, and I figured out how to fix that by early Friday morning. What I did not know was that the filtering software looked at the changes to Facebook and labeled it as a not just a social network, but a chat. We block most chat, but not social networks. Since it was now a chat, it got blocked. This took about an hour to figure out (and I did not get any of the emails until late Friday night, so the fix probably did not work until 9:30 to 10:00). You should find that Facebook now works during the allowed hours.

Comments

Joshua Franz
Mar 26, 2009

It would be interesting to see how much the internet traffic dropped during this time... Maybe that would give us some more insight to how much students use Facebook.

Taylor Snead
Feb 10, 2010

what about youtube? Sometimes?

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