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Hi there, from what we can see, this is not affecting the entire country. Can you try contacting your ISP to ask them about their route to
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From the reports we're seeing on the Chinese forum, it's looking like a bad routing table, so your ISP is best suited to assist.
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Thanks. I'll update later.
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Thanks, if we get any new info, we'll update this thread and the one on the Chinese forum:
www.flickr.com/help/forum/zh-hk/117995/
But we do believe this is specific to a regional ISP there at this time.
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Yes, same here in Beijing. I can't see pictures from farm3 and farm5. I would really love to believe this is just a technical issue this time, but honestly here you just never know. Wikipedia doesn't display pictures anymore, IMDB has been blocked and the internet has been very very slow these days...
I will try to contact CCP Telecom later but I am more than skeptical. I think it's probably more their damn Great Firewall which had been set on too conservative parameters or one of their (40,000+) internet enforcement officers who did not realized that we all use Flickr to show how passionate we are to take nice photographies of China and its people.
I'm just so tired of it all. This system is a non-sense.
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I'm also suffering this problem.
I live in Liaoning Province and since yesterday we have been having problems with the internet connections. Many times it went completely dead, even couldn't access the Baidu page.
I believe they are performing some update in the Great Firewall and they are messing with all the internet traffic.
This has happened before and after a few days everything went to normal.
Just finger cross and see if everything is solved soon.
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Sounds like china is censoring again and again hear so much about that gov't of china no freedom of speech. Had a email from someone in china about my web site and nothing more.
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Same problem, I am in Beijing. Mamamia...
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No problems yet in Southern China, Guangdong, Zhuhai. Will check again later.
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Does anyone have plug-in "Access Flickr 1.9" for firefox 3.5.9?
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Access Flickr 1.9 ?
here:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/4286/23924
but it's actually already 1.11:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286
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Thanks cnmark !
But 1.11 looks not fixing the problem, anyone knows how to fine tune this plug-in so it could fix the farm3 and farm5 problem. It looks only fix the farm4.
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You may ask Hamed (the developer). But I do not know if he still supports it.
Basically the tool accesses the flickr servers directly via their IP addresses and by doing so it bypasses the URL blocking, but any "fine-tuning" would thus be a programmer's job.
To my knowledge the latest update of this tool is some time ago, so it surely does not "know" farm 5.
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i'm in Beijing, having the same problem yesterday and today. if anyone knows a workaround for Mac please post.
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Hi friends, im having the same problem in Beijing...I uploaded yesterday and cant see sh*t... Tried with both Firefox and Safari and no luck...
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Hey all, we are not sure we can help with this but if anyone is able to document specifically where the network traffic stops similarly to this post in the Chinese Help Forum it might be useful. FWIW, we've heard from some members far outside of the Beijing area who are not affected, but again, we do not know what the issue is.
Anyway, on Windows you could try this in a DOS shell:
pathping [name of affected server]
[hit enter/return]
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pathping farm5.static.flickr.com
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..and let that run until it's all finished.
For Macs, try a traceroute in Terminal app, for instance-
traceroute farm5.static.flickr.com
We could get that off forum if you prefer not to post network information; if so, just let us know.
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If this is a DNS hijack then surely the simple approach would be to put entries for the flickr farm servers in the client system's hosts file? If someone were to want to do that, what IPs should they be using?
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Interesting thought above...
- as for flickr, still no flickr issues in Southern China.
(But something is going on, because since today morning wikipedia is blocked at my location.)
Edited one hour later: The above is probably just a spammer exploiting the current situation. The flickr access problems appear to be in Northern China (Beijing and around) - this tuhigh thingy is registered by a person in Shenzhen, Southern China. The provider through whom that site was registered is also listed as frequent spam source....
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I have the same problem these days in both Jilin and Shanghai. Clearing cache & other options are not fixing the problem. I have tried uninstalling & reinstalling Firefox with no fix.
Sure hope this is resolved very quickly!
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I can't see Farm 3 and 5 photos at home, but strangely enough I can see them at work. I'm in Chengdu and this is surely annoying. Any news when or how to resolve this issue? (Contacting my ISP is not an option!)
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If the problem is caused by your ISP or some upstream network in your geographic area, contacting your ISP is likely your only real option. You could try using a proxy service to bypass the issue, although not sure that's even legal in China?
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Hey Kevin, please post your email and I'll send you traceroute data... cheers
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Proxy servers are fairly unreliable and slow. For good service one needs to pay as well (about 10 dollars a month). And indeed, it's illegal. As a foreigner with limited Chinese language skills, contacting a Chinese ISP is mission impossible.
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"Proxy servers are fairly unreliable and slow."
That's not necessarily true. All access to the internet from our corporate network is proxied. Speed is fast and access reliable (OK - so we have resilient proxies and I don't know the availability of any single node).
None of which helps you in your current predicament, but just saying ;-)
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+1... Im In Beijing and getting the same problem...
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I'm in Beijing. Can't see all my pictures... :((
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any staff email please? will send you traceroute data...
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Beninoz, just sent you a help case message, thanks!
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Like one or two of the members above, I can access my flickr in one location (home) without an issue, but at another location (work) farm 3 and 5 are blocked. I first became aware of the situation two days ago, when a colleague said his farm 3 and 5 photos were blocked; he lives 20 kilometers from me, here in Liaoning Province.
When I started this thread, and zyrcster responded, I was sure it would be a local ISP issue. Now I have no idea.
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At this time, we do not have a wealth of info about this issue, but from our testing, it appears that these farm servers are not blocked in Shanghai, Guangzhou, or Hong Kong, but are blocked in Beijing, including Liaoning Province.
That is by no means a definitive answers, it's the only locations we have been able to test.
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Wow, it is so weird, right now I am at school (were EVERYTHING is blocked... even Youku) but I can use Flickr with no problems at all... so weird.
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zyrcster I checked some friends from Beijing. Users from CHINA TELECOM is fine, but China Unicom's users all have this problem.
Some of users have called China Unicom and report this problem, but so far the problem is still there and no feed back from them yet.
If it's possible, would you staff officially contact them to check what the problem is and how to fix it?
The hot line of China Unicom (中国联通) is +86 10010 or +86 (10) 10010.
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It would be great if everybody posting here would just state his/her ISP, basically there are only 2 of them:
- CHINA TELECOM 中国电信
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- China Unicom 中国联通 (aka / ex China Netcom 中国网通)
That would definitely help flickr staff to sort it out.
I am on China Telecom and as previously posted, no problems.
And the current consent over on the Chinese forum is that only those users connected via China Unicom 中国联通 / China Netcom 中国网通 are affected.
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Well, it's pretty simple. China Telecom (中国电信) is providing only mobile and RTC services. China Unicom (中国联通) is providing ADSL.
My friends and myself, all connected to the internet through ADSL, can't see the farm3/5 images on the website, although one of my other friend using the iPhone Flickr app can still access the whole web page.
I might be wrong but the reality is that the ban only occurred at China Unicom for now, but soon China Telecom users might also be affected. This is what happened to Flickr in 2007 (and 2009 if I remember right) when some of the website's farms also got blocked for whatever crappy reasons. They did started by the ADSL and extended the ban to mobile services at a later stage.
In any case, it's still good to call them, pretend to be naive, and ask why (the f***) we can't access our favorite website. This way they will keep in mind that a whole community of people is really annoyed by this situation (which they most likely don't give a damn but well...).
Just remember the golden rule: Control - Obey - Comply. Once you accept that, you feel relieved.
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My situation seems to be consistent with what others have voiced here. I'm with China Telecom at home, and have no issues (at this time), but at work it's Unicom and the two farm servers are blocked.
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"China Telecom (中国电信) is providing only mobile and RTC services. China Unicom (中国联通) is providing ADSL. "
Not true: e.g. in Shanghai and Zhuhai both do provide the ADSL service. And at your location in Beijing you could go to Beijing Telecom (= China Telecom) for ADSL service.
As for a status update - all ADSL home and office access:
Shanghai Telecom ADSL (=China Telecom) = all green
China Unicom Shanghai = farm 3 and 5 red
China Telecom Zhuhai = all green
China Unicom Zhuhai = farm 3 and 5 red
A recent post over at the Chinese forum also assumes it's technical issue with China Unicom (but will they ever admit it?), not a GFW issue.
The 2007 block did block all of the farms, but not flickr completely. And so it could be tunneled with Hamed's tool.
The 2009 block was an URL block that blocked everything with "flickr.com" in the URL.
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so sad. perhaps Unicom is the first cab off the rank; others to follow
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Or first up against the wall...
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Here in Chengdu it's the same story: China Telecom no problem but with China Unicom farm 3 and 5 are blocked. Could Flickr staff try to find out why and when (if?) this issue will be resolved?
Or is this just the start of more (bad news) to some?
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Still can't see the pictures... Anyone knows when can this problem to be solved?
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 "Not true: e.g. in Shanghai and Zhuhai both do provide the ADSL service. And at your location in Beijing you could go to Beijing Telecom (= China Telecom) for ADSL service."
Thanks for your detailed information regarding the 2007, and 2009 blocks. This is something I wasn't aware of. For the rest, I agree with you for Shanghai and Zhuhai (I don't really know the situation there) as I was referring to Beijing. But as for Beijing, seriously I am really not quite sure Cnmark... To my knowledge (I might be wrong of course) only China Unicom is providing ADSL in Beijing. Ten years ago there was only China Telecom in China which later split into China Telecom (for the South of China) and China Netcom (taking care of the North of China). Then, one or two years ago, China Netcom (Beijing Netcom) and China Unicom merged into China Unicom which is the operator everyone is using to connect to internet through ADSL in Beijing.
Anyway, that's history. The good information is that this might only be a technical problem. I really hope that this is true.
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Just for the record: Liaocheng, Shandong("the North"); China Unicom; farms 3/5 blocked.
I have very limited language and computer skills, quite anxious about all of this talk of "calling companies", "tunnels and hacks" etc.
But won't mind meeting more Flickr folk in the region when/if all of this BS blows over. Or even if it doesn't, as indeed there are no guarantees...
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Just FWI, but in the aftermath of Google telling China they would no longer censor search results, China has blocked several sites that they don't want people having easy access to. I know IMDB.com for sure was just blocked today.
So don't rule out that this may be a recent result of the Google fallout.
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There is a red dot on the images now, rather than the broken rectangle image...so something has changed in the last few hours.
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I'm having the same problem connecting from Shanghai. Everything is working fine when I use the same proxy I use for facebook, so annoying. Is there any oficial information from flickr?
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result of my conversations with unicom technical assistance is that "he'll report this to his manager on Monday". i reckon we are out of luck - can a technical issue be so widespread and so consistent??
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Beninoz wrote can a technical issue be so widespread and so consistent?? I don't think it is a technical issue. I believe it to be a deliberate action on Unicom's part
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Does anyone genuinely thinks it's a technical issue?
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No!
I note (via CNN) that Yahoo (Flickr's owner) has aligned itself with Google in the current spat with the Chinese government.
This may have some cause & effect to our current frustrations.
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That´s very bad news. I hope the chinese government doesn´t take it on Flickr.
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Anyone suffering this problem who is using China Telecom?
I'm a Unicom subscriber (no choice) and cannot see farms 3 and 5 photos.
Warm regards from an icy cold Beijing.
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Telecom still ok in Dalian.
Now a few days in, I wonder if Flickr staff have any update regarding this issue?
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Same problem here. Based on my previous experiences (facebook, imdb etc..) I think that this is it for Flickr users in China. Another great job from the gentlemen up there. Does anyone know any other similar websites?
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Telecom iznt ok in Zhengzhou.
WTF GFW
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frustrations are starting to boil. bahhhh! it's cold enough in beijng but what makes it all the more chilly is not have access to the outside world, again. frozen farms, redundant whims - isolationist politics.
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isnt communisme fun or what ha ha ...China sucks ass
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I agree with Lumière - this is evil: I let you in >> I let you grow >> I copy you >> I block you >> I take your subscribers
If you (CN) are so smart, then create something of your own and show us all that you are better!
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Farm 2, 3, and 5 are down in Tianjin. 1 and 4 are still hanging in there, barely.
For the record, the Flickr blocks started *before* the Google vs. China fight, then increased once Googlers started laying flowers at Google's Tsinghua HQ.
I'm guessing the blocks will last another month or so. Sucks.
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If the tactics mentioned above are true and this "technical" issue is actually a grab for market share, then wow, just wow - new lows for China's open door.
I am still hoping for an update here from flickr staff regarding the nature of the difficulties with the servers. Whatta ya hearin' from the providers flickr people? (zyrkster?)
As you can see, people here are putting together a conspiratorial two plus two. This is (slowly) becoming something the parent company should make notes on, n'est-ce pas?
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I agree.... especially since Yahoo & Alibaba are partners.
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hey guys, we've called Unicom and they said it's Flickr's problem, and they say it is Flickr who refused the visits from unicom users... damn. What should we do then?
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annietaylorchen Ha ha ha ha. You can probably demonstrate otherwise by running pathping to farm3.static.flickr.com and seeing where the packets get lost.
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So, Flickr has decided to just arbitrarily ban Chinese users on a whim, and that the ISP is completely guiltless? I'm surprised Unicom didn't try to implicate the Easter Bunny, as well..
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playing dumb...
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Hi folks,
Actually, we do not block access to specific farm servers when we drop access from certain IP ranges (which we typically do for spamming). If we were blocking the IP ranges, there would be no access to any Flickr images from those IPs. The pathping, as Patrick suggests, would be most informative, as the ones we've looked at so far all do indicate that the data is being dropped in China, before it ever gets to the Pacific cables to get to the US.
Unfortunately, we have no information on what is happening in China with this particular ISP.
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Just BTW, for those who do not look into the Chinese Forum:
Somebody has posted a script that "solves" (or better "bypasses") the problem. Needs Firefox or Safari as browsers. According to some follow-up posts it seems to work. See here:
www.flickr.com/help/forum/zh-hk/117995/749390/
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Dyno-mite!
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Thanks. This Greasemonkey userscript works in Dalian. Cheers for the link. I'm Flickring at work again. I'll offer my thanks to the creator in the Chinese Forum.
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I had this problem in October last year from Hainan. Farm3 was still blocked when I left beginning of November. I will be back there next week so will be interesting to see if it works. Unlike others on here I am on China Telecom, so the Unicom theory may not be correct.
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A flickr friend in Shanghai just sent me this (21.01.10): Flickr is not blocked in Shanghai, I tried to access this farm3 etc and no connection, I also have a VPN with servers in UK and USA, no access using this to farm3 so I guess it has nothing to do with China.
So back to flickr's admin then?
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Unless you can post a pathping showing that the loss is happening somewhere other than China, I'd say not...
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Hi cosmicsausage,
Your friend could well be blocking farm3 in their web browser. That would require troubleshooting outside the scope of this particular topic, but there is some info in the FAQ here for users outside of China who cannot access farm3.
Our farms are all up and serving images.
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中國湖北省網通，在Farm 3 和 Farm 5 的圖片都無法顯示了
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中國湖北省網通，在Farm 3 和 Farm 5 的圖片都無法顯示了
China Netcom, Hubei Province, Farm 3 and Farm 5 pictures can not be shown
Please look at the Chinese forum:
请在中文论坛看看：
www.flickr.com/help/forum/zh-hk/117995/
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Any news from Unicom China? I use Flickr as my image base for my personal website, but if half of my China clients cannot see it properly, what do you suggest me to do? Teach them how to use greasemonkey one by one is surely not a good idea. It's been weeks, almost drive my mad...
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userscripts.org/scripts/show/66637
install greasemonkey first...see next post.
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addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
then use the above post.
This works in NE China to work around Telecom.
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That Greasemonkey script is great. I have access to all my photos (for now...). Btw, I'm in Chengdu.
Edited: the script mentioned above worked the first day but not the next. Now it works again. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Well i am back in Hainan now. I checked www.flickr.com/help/test and find all green. Flickr seems to be working fine here without any workarounds needed. Hope it stays like this.
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有很简单的办法可以访问，就是在hosts文件中加上farm3和farm5的ip地址，因为只是封了域名没封ip，具体办法见
blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49d7f21e0100gwng.html
大家如果转载时请不要写出ip地址，以免被gfw盯上，谢谢！！
另外，我发现这个帖子里的farm3和farm5的ip地址，与nslookup查出来的ip地址不一样，是不是说明farm3和farm5的DNS记录被篡改或劫持了？
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楼上的太感谢了，现在用联通访问flickr毫无问题！
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If you're going to post in Chinese, please do it in the Chinese Forum: www.flickr.com/help/forum/zh-hk/117995/
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Farm 3 & 5 are still blocked.
The work around script works most of the time.
Flickrstaff; do you have any information to share with us?
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Thanks Dr. Keats, that was the first time I post something in Flickr, so I didn't notice here is an English forum. Anyway, what I want to say is, the best and most simple way to access pictures on farm3 and farm5 is:
For Windows user, please open "c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts“, and add following two lines at the end of this file:
76.13.18.78 farm3.static.flickr.com
76.13.18.79 farm5.static.flickr.com
Save this file after modified, and restart your browser, then you can access pictures on farm3 and farm5 again.
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Thanks Sean Peng.
A very simple solution and works perfect
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For the technically challenged among us, can you go slowly, one step at a time? I went to system 32, drivers, but couldn't see, etc or hosts. How EXACTLY do you add these two lines? Where exactly do you c&p them? Thanks in advance.
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(another beijinger here who cannot access images from farm3 or farm5)
"For Windows user, please open "c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts“, and add following two lines at the end of this file:
76.13.18.78 farm3.static.flickr.com
76.13.18.79 farm5.static.flickr.com"
where can this be replicated on OSX?
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Ok, so I used the Greasemonkey fix and can view but not batch edit my photos. So that's some progress for which I am grateful, thanks. Now can anyone help me fix the edit problem? Thanks in advance.
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hi all and Sean Peng,
Thx for your post.
I resolved this issue on my Mac ;)
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...\etc\ is another subdirectory (aka "folder") inside C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ so the complete path is: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
The hosts is a text file within the ...\etc\ subdirectory and initially it should look exactly like this when you open it with Windows Notepad (or any other text editor - do not edit the file with a word processor):
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
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# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
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# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
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# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
127.0.0.1 localhost
To this file you add the 2 lines mentioned by Sean, then the last 3 lines will look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
76.13.18.78 farm3.static.flickr.com
76.13.18.79 farm5.static.flickr.com
In case you don't know where to find Windows "Notepad" or what a text editor is at all, here it goes step by step:
1. Go to the "Start Menu" and select "Run..."
2. Type "Notepad" (w/o the quotation marks) and click "OK"
3. In Notepad you select "File" and "Open..."
4. Select "All files" in the file type drop down menu at the bottom of the "Open..." dialog box
5. Click through the entire path as given above to open the "hosts" file.
6. Edit as described and save.
Done...
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For Mac OS X you look here:
support.apple.com/kb/TA27291
This describes where your local hosts file is...
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@cnmark - Thank you for your kindness in replying and for the clarity of your instructions. I didn't know how to find the Notepad and so really appreciate your thoroughness. Thanks a lot. I wasn't able to complete this fix. When I opened the hosts file there was a list of spybot additions. I added Sean's two lines under 127.0.0.1 localhost but was unable to save the changes. The following message appeared: Cannot create the C/windows hosts file, make sure the path and filename are correct. I don't know what the path and filename refer to. I merely copied and pasted the lines from your post. Are we nearly there? Would very much appreciate it if you could help me complete this.
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cosmicsausage
Sounds like you do not have administrator privileges on your system.
Are you running Windows Vista or Windows 7? It appears that this error happens frequently in these versions.
If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 please read here:
support.microsoft.com/kb/923947
and follow the instructions given there to run Notepad as administrator.
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Thanks cnmark. As far as I'm aware I am the Admin but since my awareness is somewhat limited..:) I'm running XP.
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cosmicsausage
If you have "Admin" rights on an XP system there should normally not be any access problems.
But - it could be accidentally "write protected" if someone or something (yuck!) did set it to "Read-only". How to check:
1. Open the folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ with Windows Explorer.
2. Right mouse click onto the hosts file.
3. Select "Properties" in the context menu.
4. Check if it looks like in the screenshot below.
5. If "Read-only" is checked, un-check and click "OK".
There are unfortunately a multitude of other potential problem causes (e.g. malware or system protection software) that may prohibit the access, but this would go way too far for the flickr help forum. A Windows XP help forum might provide answers (Google is your friend).
Because on April 14 2009 Windows XP's mainstream support lifetime has expired, Microsoft only provides marginal help for XP now:
support.microsoft.com/ph/1173
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Mind you, many would say that Microsoft's help is only ever marginal, anyway..
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Dr. Keats
[...]Microsoft's help is only ever marginal, anyway..
Agree.
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If the problem is caused by your ISP or some upstream network in your geographic area, contacting your ISP is likely your only real option. You could try using a proxy service to bypass the issue, although not sure that's even legal in China?
zyrcster I checked some friends from Beijing. Users from CHINA TELECOM is fine, but China Unicom's users all have this problem. 
Or first up against the wall...
If you're going to post in Chinese, please do it in the Chinese Forum: 
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