I may be wrong, but couldn't you block napster at the router by null 0'ing the
IP?
I.E.
Name: www.napster.com
Address: 208.184.216.230
Ip route 208.184.216.230 null 0
This should drop any packets destined for that network
Ciao,
David
"Stanfield Hilman B(Brad) CONT NNSY" wrote:
> Through Gauntlet and now through Proxy Servers, we are blocking by name,
> napster.com, and that seems to work.
> It has has users screaming anyway. (Always a good sign)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry Lucas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:19 PM
> To: Sam Adams; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: blocking napster
>
> Sam,
>
> Napster is able to be proxied through port 80 now with the latest revisions.
> Simply shutting down port 6699, can't be done anymore to block it. You have
> to block access to their servers. Last I checked, Raptor, Pix, Gauntlet or
> Checkpoint didn't block napster's IP addresses directly without
> customization.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:29 PM
> Subject: RE: blocking napster
>
> > Funny that you guys are trying to block napster. Any good firewall takes
> > care of napster in two seconds. I have a raptor sitting right here to
> prove
> > it.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > John Hardman
> > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:14 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: blocking napster
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > As Howard would say, "What is the problem you are trying to solve?"
> >
> > Since you are asking I will assume you are a network admin for a company
> and
> > that you want to block Napster do to...
> >
> > 1) It taking up time your employees should be using to do their work
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2) It is eating up bandwidth that your company has to pay for.
> >
> > Solutions:
> >
> > 1) Management problem. There should be a policy in place limiting the
> > personal use of company equipment and resources. Employees not following
> the
> > policy should be disciplined or terminated.
> >
> > 2) Allow employees to run wide and spend lots of time monitoring and
> trying
> > block activity that the company doesn't want.
> >
> > To block Napster... do a little digging with your favorite nslookup tool
> and
> > block all access to their IP ranges.
> >
> > HTH
> > --
> > John Hardman, MCSE+I, CCNA
> > ArrisTech/CCS-IS SysAdmin
> >
> >
> > ""Dave Santeramo"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Any suggestions on how to block users of Napster? Since it uses a
> random
> > > port number I am not sure how to do this.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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