Hello guys,
I was asked to help our network engineers iron out the rough edges in our
newly installed proxy server. We're using RH 6.2 and squid 2.xx. We want to
block access to JobsDB, JobStreet, Hotmail, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN
Messenger before deployment.
Would it be better to use the ports for the last three or would blocking
the websites do just fine? If the former - does anyone have a list of ports
I can copy?
Also, a week ago they were configuring ipchains and complained that
blocking and/or limiting access to the M$ sites like hotmail and msn was
just too much of a hassle because these sites had several ip addresses.
Since the firewall is already deployed, I think they opted to tinker with
squid instead just to block the sites.
I'm just curious, isn't it easier to block all these using ipchains? They
explained to me that ICQ, MSN and Yahoo Messenger accessed their websites
to provide those services so blocking the websites would also work. Is this
recommended?
Feel free to correct me.
Many TIA!
Paolo Carballo
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