[K12OSN] How to block myspace.com
Huck
dhuckaby at paasda.org
Thu May 25 17:29:02 UTC 2006
ahh gotta love those kids who figured out 'dig' or 'nslookup' ;)
Gentgeen wrote:
> Nice idea, set the host file to 192.168.xx.xx (or what ever internal
> network IP) and set up an old P1 as the webserver there. The have the
> index.html page explain what is going on and why. A lot nicer then the
> "localhost" IP.
>
> Question though -- if the kid actually know that
> myspace.com=63.208.226.43 wouldn't he/she be able to bypass the host
> file/DNS entry?
>
> Gentgeen
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
> Hoover Chan <chan at sacredsf.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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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