Re: N2H2 Web Proxy/Filter appliance

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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Richard Hill wrote:
> We have the N2H2 proxy server at our High School, mpow.  The thing is a
> piece of crap, most sites that already blocked are blocked by name only,
> ie. chat.yahoo.com is blocked but if do an nslookup or a ping and get its
> ip address and stick that in your broswer it goes right through the proxy
> server and Boom, you have your chat. Now www.playb0y.com is blocked by both,
> but most new sites and less popular sites are blocked by name only. It would
> be impossible to keep up  with all the ips of every site you wanted blocked
> and enter them into the
> pos along with the names. I called N2H2 about this little problem and they
> thanked me and told me that it was now on their directors level and
> there was nothing more they could help me with. As of yet I have not
> seen a fix.
Good point, however they don't need to learn the IP's to block them - they
can just make sure to attempt to do reverse dns lookups on any numeric
IP's before doing their checks.  This won't catch everything, but it will
cover probably 90+% and be a very simple step for their engineers to add,
IMHO.

Max