Blocking AOL for Broadband and NOT AIM

From: Mike Binns (mike_at_mikebinns.net)
Date: 09/29/04


Date: 29 Sep 2004 08:39:32 -0700

I am the Internet Manager for our college, and we have content
filtering on campus. The problem is that one of the ways to get around
our content filtering is to use the aol client in the TCP (not dial
up) mode to access websites we block. I checked and the AOL client
uses the same port as AIM (5190). We want to allow people to use AIM
for communications, and AOL Mail from the AOL website, but block
people from using the AOL Client, but blocking port 5190 would
obviously kill AIM. Any suggestions?

-Mike Binns



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