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Old 09-05-2006, 01:20 PM
scsinaz Offline
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MySpace seems to be a growing problem, its alot easier to block the usage of it a a corporate level, which we had to do.

I basically told my firewall to look for all URLs that contained the words "myspace" in it, and have it reject it.

I got a alot of hate mail from my users.. but I told them that they should not be using MySpace on company time.

Some personal firewalls may be able to do this, though I am not sure which ones, but one might try simply putting this as a URL block:

*.myspace.com

That may work instead of trying to figure out all their IPs, and hostnames.

Now this only works for hostnames... but as soon as I figure out what ranges of IPS they use I am going to create IP Routes on my internal internet router to route back back to 127.0.0.1.

But for right now its working... though my rule in the firewall I have does prevent them from doing a ping, nslookup, etc.. again because its looking for any content that contains myspace in it.
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