Access Facebook/Orkut If blocked in Your School College Or Office

Did you try to access Facebook or Orkut account when you are in school, college or office? You must found that you are blocked when you are trying to access them, mainly social networking sites. Most of the organizations block social networking websites to prevent people from access them. If you are addicted in Facebook or Orkut like me then you must have tried some methods to access those blocked websites.

But don’t worry! There are various ways to access the blocked websites. I’ll describe the methods. But for your knowledge, I want to say how the administrator of the network system blocks the Facebook, Orkut or any other? The urls of the website, you generally type in the address bar are originally an IP address. Every website has an unique IP. So when you browse any website typing the website url, computer matches the url name with its IP address. This job is done by the DNS server. DNS server is a computer, registered with the network which keeps the data of all the websites and corresponding IP addresses. So if any body blocks the IP address in DNS server then all the client of that DNS server won’t have the access that website.

Here the tricks plays. The Facebook, Orkut are blocked in your college or office because the administrator has blocked site in the DNS server. So now you can easily imagine that what I’m going to do. To unblock the site you can use another DNS server. It is quite easy. You can use OpenDNS servers or Google Public DNS servers. If you are using Windows then go to Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections > Network Connections and then right click on connection status icon which you are using to access internet. Now chose “Properties” and then Internet Protocol(TCP/IP). Put any one of the following values in the DNS server address OpenDNS server address: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 Google DNS server address 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Make sure that your institution or office is not using the DNS server which you going to use. Once you changed the DNS server you can access Facebook, Orkut or any other websites you want. If you know any other way to access Facebook if it is blocked, share with us. Related: Access Facebook from Windows start menu.

More Tips on accessing Facebook if blocked

Most of the schools, colleges or offices keep Facebook blocked so that the students or employees can not open Facebook.com from there. But still you can access Facebook in schools or offices by using some alternative ways. Here is the workarounds on how to open Facebook from school if blocked. It is not obvious that all of the followings will work for you. But, I’m sure that any of them will work and you can enjoy browsing Facebook as well as you can log into your Facebook account.

Opening Facebook using IP address

Some time the admin of your current computer may apply a little trick in the Windows hosts file to block Facebook in it. He adds the website domain name to the block list in that file. In this case, you can access Facebook by the IP address instead of the domain address. Putting IP address in your browser directly, will bypass the barricade of host file. You can get the IP address by pinging Facebook.com from your computer. To do so, Press Win + R key to open the Run command box. Put the following command and hit Enter.

ping facebook.com -t

This will open a command prompt and it will show the IP address of Facebook.com.

Often, chances are that the command prompt is disabled for the current user. In such situation, try to find the Facebook address from this web tool. Once you go to that website, just type facebook.com at where they ask to put it and click on Get IP.

Once you get the IP address, put that in your browser address bar and hit Enter. The Facebook should open.

Use Shortened URLs

In many situation, the Facebook site URL may be banned for you. In such a case, you can use a shortened URL to bypass the ban and then you will be redirected to the original site URL of Facebook. You can use some URL shortening service like goo.gl or bit.ly.

Use Proxy Websites to open Facebook if blocked

Proxy websites can be used to open blocked urls in your computer. But generally, this website are also blocked in school, colleges or office. Therefore this tricks may not sound much. But you can try some proxy sites if they work for you.

Open Facebook via Secure Web Proxy

It is the easiest way to access Facebook if blocked in your school, college or office. One of such working website is http://www.securitales.com. The best side of this website is that it won’t ask you to install any application in your computer and even it supports the Facebook chat, photo uploading etc. The website is totally secured for you as it uses the HTTPS protocol. Though it lets you to use their service only 10 minutes for a free trial, you can give this a try as it does not charge too much.

Access Facebook using Google Public DNS or Open DNS servers

Using a different DNS server for your internet connection can make you to open blocked websites. You can try the DNS servers to access blocked websites in your computer.

Use Opera Mini browser

If nothing of the above works for you, then try the Opera Mini browser to open the Facebook with its mobile version. Simply, go to the Opera mini demo link in your browser and try the mobile version of Facebook. The address for the Facebook mobile version is http://m.facebook.com. The above methods are enough to access Facebook if blocked. But if you are still facing problems with opening Facebook, you can stay connected with Facebook from your email account.

Access Facebook from your email account

Facebook allows you to choose which updates do you want to get as notification in your email account. Once you set your Facebook account to receive notifications in your email account, you can then monitor the activities of your Facebook account if it is blocked at your school. Log-in to your Facebook account and go to Account > Account Settings. In the Notification tab you can manage your notifications. Now the notification message will be sent to your email id. Whenever you get that message in your inbox, just open it, click on the link which indicates the option to reply the message. You are done!

Do you have any other idea to access Facebook if blocked? Do share with us.