want to block yahoo web chat through dansgurarian(squid)

[achtani_jeetu]

hi everybody
i need to block yahoo web chat. i had googled a lot n come to know that i need to block dnslookups for these urls httpcs.msg.yahoo.com and webcs.msg.yahoo.com and these should return 127.0.0.1. i havent have DNS configured so tried by making an entry in etc hosts file
but unforunately it didnt worked. if anybody can help
then i will genuinely give u a yellow rose.
thanks in advance
reagrds

[nujinini]

Hi and welcome!

The only way I know is to:

su -
Password

nano /etc/hosts

0.0.0.0 www.yahoo.com<---- ADD THESE

Cntrl x
y
exit

However, this method would totally block yahoo in your system.

I'm very sure the gurus can give you a better method. Meanwhile, you might want to try this out.

Enjoy the hunt!

EDIT: Man, I tried it my system and was surprised it still allows me to go in yahoomail.com inspite of the block of yahoo.com. I'm afraid my response is not very accurate Sorry