Archan Paul rearranged electrons thusly:
> and subsequently, I will try to post my code and hacks in the list to get rid
> of Stupid-SysAdmin kind of behaviour. Ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Not so funny:
1. ICQ, IRC (and even IM clients like yahoo / aol / msn), and Napster, etc can
be used for file sharing - and hence are one of the largest sources of worms /
virii entering a network. Getting rid of them (at least on doze boxes) saves
you a lot of time cleaning up infected computers (and getting hacked after the
virus opens up ports on your NT server)
2. They are total bandwidth hogs - espeically as people leave them on all the
time and sometimes have four or five windows popping up. Makes it rather
tough to upload an oracle database of over 400 megs in size when somebody is
downloading MP3s and chatting to a half dozen of his friends at the same time.
3. My employer pays nearly Rs.4 lakhs per month for bandwidth (a DSL and a
64 kbps leased line). When you look at an office leased line in those terms,
you will definitely see the point (or your boss will make you see it when he
realizes the fact)
Get the point?
> BLOCKING IS NOT THE SOLUTION, MOTIVATING THE CHATTER TO THE WORK
> IS THE SOLUTION.
This motivation is an essential *part* of the solution. Blocking is the
second part of the solution - to back up all the motivation.
> BLOCKING AND SNIFFING IN THE PORTS BY SYS-ADMINS' IS INJURIOUS TO
> THE HEALTH
Is that so?
Yash wrote:
> > Then can someone tell me the port nos of yahoo,icq,msn,Aol messengers. I
> > tried to block through ipchains RH Linux6.2
You can do that - or block access to the hostnames using squid ACLs.
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