From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 16:20:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D0C37B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D5243F18 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0M0KE7w001078 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:20:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFW, blocking IM servers References: <34651.63.104.35.130.1043185192.squirrel@email.polands.org> <87hec2jggs.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <20030121230308.GA89143@babylon.polands.org> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:20:09 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20030121230308.GA89143@babylon.polands.org> (Doug Poland's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:03:09 -0600") Message-ID: <87el76hw7a.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-01-21T23:03:09Z, Doug Poland writes: > I'm concerned about the big 3, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. They must have a > limited IP range they use. From=20GAIM's account editor: AOL : login.oscar.aol.com:5190 Yahoo: scs.yahoo.com:5050 MSN : messenger.hotmail.com:1863 > This is my boss's idea! Also there are also a number of volunteers who > cannot be fired. Ahh, then, that makes a difference. I'd still advertise an explicit "no IM!" policy. > I'm doing that now, however, I know the Yahoo client will use any open > port it can find and tunnel through that. I hadn't been aware of that. Seems like rather un-neighborly behaviour. > Actually, this is to head of the problem before it starts. Thanks for you > input and point of view Kirk. Gotcha. Or, do what a friend of mine does (but denies): commandeer your own local server, and use it to insert enough bogus messages into the local network to make IM clients unusable. :) =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+LeO+5sRg+Y0CpvERAp09AKCOISSd658hggB+28ngxRyRfx1VyQCdHBur MyeJOxE/A+xXVGSSvG9WkmQ= =HuF2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message