Re: Messenger services

[Jim Littlefield <little () hks com>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:27:50AM -0600, sim wrote:
> I am trying to stop Messenger services (AOL Messenger and MSN Messenger.
> Any others?) to and from my network.  Is this possible with ipchains i.e.
> block the ports they use?  Is there any other way?
> I am using a Sparc machine running Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.2.17 w/ ipchains.
> How would I go about doing this?

AOL is easy; just block all traffic to aim.aol.com. Note that that
currently is defined to be:

% host aim.aol.com
aim.aol.com has address 205.188.148.180
aim.aol.com has address 205.188.147.113
aim.aol.com has address 205.188.147.114
aim.aol.com has address 205.188.148.181


-- 
Jim Littlefield              "If all the nations in the world are
                              in debt, where did all the money
                              go?" - Steven Wright

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