Forge host names to 127.0.0.1

[ferg]

G'Day All;

I am trying to block IM on the network. How/where do I go in my DNS server
to accomplist the following:

The 'safest' method is to use your DNS to forge the host names
login.orcar.aol.com and oscar.aol.com to 127.0.0.1 so that regardless of
what AOL changes their IP' to, your local DNS server will respond first
with the bogus IP's...


Thanks much

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

f> How/where do I go in my DNS server
f> to accomplist the following:

Always start at the "How to..." section of the product documentation
for questions that begin with "How do I". The product documentation,
not Usenet, should be your first port of call.

<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/prodt...g_DNS_pro_WorkingWithZonesNode.asp?frame=true>

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

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G'Day All;

I am trying to block IM on the network. How/where do I go in my DNS
server to accomplist the following:

The 'safest' method is to use your DNS to forge the host names
login.orcar.aol.com and oscar.aol.com to 127.0.0.1 so that regardless
of what AOL changes their IP' to, your local DNS server will respond
first with the bogus IP's...


Thanks much

Just create forward lookup zones with those names. But that won't stop a
determined user.

 

[ferg]

Kevin,
Thanks fro your reply. Can you please expound on your comment "But that
won't stop a determined user."

Thanks

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

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Kevin,
Thanks fro your reply. Can you please expound on your comment "But
that won't stop a determined user."

Thanks

A determined user can just change the DNS server. A good proxy server can
stop IM protocols.

 

[ferg]

OK... Thanks

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A determined user can just change the DNS server. A good proxy server can
stop IM protocols.