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Saturday
Dec202008

What is Whois IP/Snapshot Website Locked!

Seems People are having this issue with Facebook:


[ad#ad2-right]Although I don't know what could be wrong I'd figure we talk about what it it means.
Whois -- is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. WHOIS lookups were traditionally made using a command line interface, but a number of simplified web-based tools now exist for looking up domain ownership details from different databases. Web-based WHOIS clients still rely on the WHOIS protocol to connect to a WHOIS server and do lookups, and command-line WHOIS clients are still quite widely used by system administrators. WHOIS normally runs on TCP port 43.

[Via Wikipedia]

So what does that mean?  It means that when your IP sends a request to the server to find the IP address of facebook and it comes back saying "Website Locked" meaning the DNS server you are using is being blocked.  You can however unblock it by using another DNS like OPENDNS.  This service would ultimately let you use facebook.  This is how to fix the problem for those who are having the problem.