nuqneH,
Well, i have an irc proxy that may block or pass dcc, what software do you
use on that firewall?
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:09:27AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
>
> "Hawkins, Michael" <MHawkins_at_TULLIB.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Now here's a rant http://patrioticduo.blogspot.com/
> [snip]
>
> "Partitioning is coming?" On my network it's already here--in a wy.
>
> Coincidentally, just yesterday afternoon an end-user got himself
> blackholed on one of the firewalls for tripping over a simple IDS that
> didn't like him poking at port 6667.
>
> Turns out he wanted to see if he could IRC from the $work network.
>
> Then he tried to talk me into allowing him to do so. "Absolutely not,"
> says I, "not using that electronic petri dish you call an ``operating
> system.''" Then he suggested I could limit him to using a text-based
> IRC client. "How am I going to accomplish that," I asked, "being as
> you have administrator access to your machine?"
>
> He actually has what sounds like a reasonable, work-related reason for
> wanting to access a technically-related IRC network/channel. I told
> him if he wanted to use a Unix/Linux client approved by I.T., we could
> discuss it. But no client/desktop systems, particularly those from a
> Certain Large Software Company, and *certainly* no client/desktop
> systems over which the end-user has admin rights.
>
> I wonder if there's a *good* IRC proxy out there that will block DCC
> for me...?
>
> Jim
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