Re: Kazaa Block !

From: steve harris (steveharris1@REMOVECAPShotmail.com)
Date: 11/28/02 

From: steve harris <steveharris1@REMOVECAPShotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:18:34 -0600

hazard wrote:

> Any idea how to block kazaa ?????
> When a user open it, it seems that it tries to connect to the
> "rr1.kazaa.com" but rr1.kazaa.com seems to have many different ip's.
> If i block the 1165 tcp port, it goes over http.
> I don't know what to do... i think that i found a solution by blocking all
> the .kazaa.com, the 217.116.226.0 and the 1214, 3306 tcp/udp ports
> I tried from a user of the company pc and it returns a dns error on the
> first page and the no connect (yea, i did it:) )
> Do I have to block something else to be sure cause there're lot of users,
> slow connection, and finaly no bandwith for me !! (kidding)
>
>
> Thanks !

Which operating system and/or firewall?

If a computer firewall, you can create a hosts file (Linux and Windows)
which the operating system checks before it checks your DNS server.

Set kazaa.com to resolve to something else.