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Block MSN
Name: brucezc Date: April 15, 2005 at 11:57:48 Pacific OS: XP/2000 CPU/Ram: any
Comment:
Hi, everybody: I meet a problem, my company has a LAN (less than 20 PCs)and throught ADSL Modem/Routor to access Internet. Now I manager ask me to block MSN in every PC, who can tell me how to disable MSN in network?
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: April 15, 2005 at 14:04:42 Pacific
Reply:
Check the router's configuration to see if it has the option to block ports. Then just block the port(s) that MSN uses.
Michael J
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Response Number 2
Name: brucezc Date: April 15, 2005 at 14:12:07 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, Michael: Could you tell me which port(s) for the MSN Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: Curt R Date: April 15, 2005 at 15:10:43 Pacific
Reply:
A quick search of google for msn ports yielded multiple links. The first one I clicked on pointed to a site with a port search engine that you either typed the port # or program name into. I typed in "msn" and it gave me the following:
http://www.weethet.nl/english/ipports.php
Total time: 1 minute (it's amazing what one can find using a search engine and a wee bit of thought...)
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Response Number 4
Name: briantech Date: April 22, 2005 at 09:11:46 Pacific
Summary: Hi, Is there any way to block access to MSN Messenger? We have tried blocking login.passport.net but this also blocks access to hotmail.com which is not a side effect we want. Are there any ports or...
Summary: You should consult the people running the network at your University. If they are intentionally blocking it, then even if you found a way "around it" you would be violating network policies which cou...
Summary: DO you have a firewall setup on you LAN somewhere? here is a firewall set in blocking MSN Make sure TCP prort 1863 is open and Subnet 64.4.13.0 is open too... -p TCP --dport 1863 -j DROP -d 64.4.13....
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