No dunce cap needed I was actually stating it as a question.
From: Andrew Levicki Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: restrict internet access to three websites Apologies, David, yes, good point well made. My dunce's cap is well and truly in place. On 10 March 2010 22:01, David W. McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote: The idea is not to give them a DNS settings on the TCP/IP stack and only give them a hosts file. this should limit what the computer 'knows' about on the Internet. From: Andrew Levicki Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: restrict internet access to three websites Hi Thomas / Shane, Sorry if I've missed something, but creating entries in the hosts file alone isn't going to restrict these PCs to just these three websites. Is there another prong to your attack, so to speak? Thanks, Andrew On 10 March 2010 07:13, Thomas Mullins <[email protected]> wrote: Hello all, I have a customer that wants to restrict internet access to only three websites. The machines have Vista Home edition on them. One of the websites is an https site, so we cannot use the built in Parental Controls settings. The main office has a Cisco ASA 5505, so no problem there. I will just give the machine a static IP address, and use the ASA to restrict that IP to only the three approved websites. However, the other sites do not have an ASA. I am not sure what router they have (and will not know until I go onsite), but I am sure it is a low end unit. I was thinking of using a hosts file to resolve DNS names to actual internet addresses. Any better ideas? Thanks Shane -- Kind regards, Andrew Levicki MCITP MCSE CCNA [email protected] www.andrewlevicki.eu -- Kind regards, Andrew Levicki MCITP MCSE CCNA [email protected] www.andrewlevicki.eu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
