I am having a brain phart day. The link for the download was given, but
you will find information on the procedure at
http://www.chrisliveonline.com/security/squid.htm


On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:59, Michael Petch wrote:
> One other method is to use a proxy server to help filter traffic by URL
> and/or IP. This involves running squid on your firewall box and taking
> all outbound port 80 traffic from your internal network and sending it
> to squid port 3128 (Which then goes to the real world). Squid has the
> ability to block by url's and IP addresses.
> 
> If this seems like a way you might want to go then I could recommend
> this site with config files, settings and scripts you might find useful:
> 
> http://www.chrisliveonline.com/security/scripts/squid.zip
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 17:19, Shawn Grover wrote:
> > did some more research on this...
> > 
> > apparently if port 1863 is blocked, MSN then switches to some random port above 
> > 1024 using HTTP.  Next, I tried to block a specific server (messenger.hotmail.com) 
> > but that didn't work either - I guess MSN switches to another server is if the 
> > first can't be found....
> > 
> > hmmm... gotta wonder why they would make it so tough to "turn off".
> > 
> > Shawn
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Shawn Grover
> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 4:29 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CLUG General
> > Subject: RE: [clug-talk] Blocking MSN with IPTables?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks Pete.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that code doesn't seem to be working.  I've placed the commands 
> > right after the enable masquerading commands, but no luck - we can still connect 
> > and send messages....
> > 
> > I even looked up what server we were connecting to (messenger.hotmail.com), found 
> > it's IP (207.46.104.20), and changed the second line.  Still no luck.  (and there 
> > are no #'s in the script either...)
> > 
> > Thanks anyways.
> > 
> > Shawn
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Pete
> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:58 PM
> > To: CLUG General
> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Blocking MSN with IPTables?
> >     To block MSN messenger:
> >     # iptables -A FORWARD -p TCP --dport 1863 -j DROP
> >     # iptables -A FORWARD -d 64.4.13.0/24 -j DROP
> > 
> > < Somebody that can confirm those 2 lines? >
> > 
> > They still can use web-enabled chat services...
> > And what if a user know how to port-redirect ... ?
> > 
> > My opinion : don't block it, educate/ask users, log, detect misuse, warn, and give 
> > pink slip so that he/she can use MSN @ home all day...
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
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