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Hi I have been asked to stop staff using MSN messenger. I believe the easiest way to do this is to block access to https://login.passport.com therefore stopping anyone to log ...
  1. 01-12-2005 #1
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    Blocking messenger



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    I have been asked to stop staff using MSN messenger. I believe the easiest way to do this is to block access to https://login.passport.com therefore stopping anyone to log on. (dont want to start blocking ports)

    I guess I would add this address somewhere to our firewall (the person in charge of our firewall has just left !) any ideas how I can do this.

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    Whats your firewall name,
    what distro,...
    Please provide as much info as possible
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    oops

    Firewall is the one that comes with Red Hat linux 7.2
    Kernel 2.4.7-10

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    Im not a pro at setting firewall under linux, but here's something that might work

    Get IPTABLES working.
    Code:
    iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -d messenger.hotmal.com --dport 1863 -j REJECT
    This can block an ip or range of ips:
    Code:
    iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s address/mask -d messenger.hotmal.com --dport
1863 -j REJECT
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    also if a real security admin could have a look at this, there may be a flaw in this...
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