[K12OSN] How to block myspace.com

[Hoover Chan]

Interesting tactic.

Another one along the same lines, if you have access to your own DNS 
servers and can create virtual Web hosts, is to have them point to a real 
place, your own, with a message about why they were directed there.

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Hoover Chan                   chan at sacredsf.org
Technology Network Coordinator
Schools of the Sacred Heart
2222 Broadway St.
San Francisco, CA 94115


On Wed, 24 May 2006, Doug Simpson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:56:41 -0500
> From: Doug Simpson <veewee77 at alltel.net>
> Reply-To: Support list for opensource software in schools. <k12osn at redhat.com>
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools. <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] How to block myspace.com
> Resent-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:55:00 -0700
> Resent-From: chan at sacredsf.org
> Resent-To: hchan at albert.sacredsf.org
> 
> One easy way to do this is to go into the /etc/hosts file and add these sites 
> at the end.
>
> examples:
>
> 127.0.0.1 myspace.com
> 127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com
> 127.0.0.1 what.ever.else.com
>
>
> Do not disturb the first 127.0.0.1 line in there!!!! It has to be there and 
> correct for some things to work right.
>
> What this will do os cause the server to oint attemped connections to the 
> localhost.  If you have a webserver running, it will show your local site. . 
> .
>
> Quick and dirty, but you will drive yourself nutz trying to keep up with all 
> the variations of sites. . .
>
> There are places you can get lists of thousands of entries to ut in the 
> /etc/hosts file that will do this very effectively.  If I can remember, I 
> will look that info u later. . .
>
> Doug
>
>
> Dave Prentice wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm sure this has been dealt with before, but I can't figure out how to 
>> search the archives. Is there an easy way on K12LTSP to prevent students 
>> from logging on to myspace.com? I've heard so many potential dangers that I 
>> don't want them accessing it from school.
>> Thanks,
>> Dave Prentice
>> 
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