> > My firewall is using Debian and my damn boss > > asked me to block napster.
> Don't try to block napster by port number. Just understand > how napster works. > > It works by letting a client query the *napster* server for lists > of systems that have a particular song. The client then goes > to the listed system and retrieves the song. > > Well, just block the napster site using ipchains, then no > indexing can be done. But there are many, many Napster servers... can you block them with "*.napster.com", "napster.*.*" or similar ?? As far as IP addresses, what if they're not in a block, but have a wide variety of addresses ?? Hall