Though IM Protocols are different you can block them
if you add their respective domains to a blocked
domain or urls file
for example oscar.aol.com or toc.aol.com are servers
used by Aol Instant Messenger.
Hope this helps
Ryan Kather
Applications Technician
--- Morris Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1st, Chris, I'd rather you asked questions like this
> on the newsgroup. We
> all benefit from the questions, even if they aren't
> answered.
>
> Squidguard can only block requests that are passed
> to it by squid. Thus,
> this is more of a squid question than a squidguard
> one. The answer is that
> IM protocols are very different from HTTP or FTP and
> so they are unlikely to
> work if redirected through squid.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Blocking Instant messaging
>
>
> Hi Morris do you know how I can use squidGuard to
> block instant messaging
> services such as AOL instant messaging and MSN
> instant messaging ??
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris McDermott
>
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