Re: firewall with parental control filtering needed for usenet, p2p and web

From: abspc (l_at_l.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:32:06 -0800

Leythos wrote:

> In article <20050112004321.743$Ka@news.newsreader.com>, l@l.com says...
>
>>Norton internet security 2005 and other software filter usenet just fine
>>for the most part. but on port 119. norton filters it also if you change
>>the port in a client but not every port. i changed a port from 119 to
>>8000 and 9000 etc and norton blocked the newsgroup on another port other
>>then 119, but i forget which one, however using port 9000 it did not. i
>>was able to access the group. some servers accept connections on other
>>ports besides 119.
>>
>>usenet is a priority for me to filter as is p2p and web sites. i don't
>>care about anything else. that's all i want and need.
>
>
> Are you talking about blocking ALL Usenet access or just specific groups
> inside a Usenet service? You need to be specific - Newsgroup or Usenet,
> a newsgroup is a part of Usenet. Blocking access to linux.redhat is
> different that blocking all Usenet access.
>
> If you want to block all Usenet service on ANY port, then any firewall
> will work - as a real firewall will only let you access ports that you
> create rules to allow.
>
> This means that if I only allow DNS, filtered HTTP, SSL, and POP, that
> you can't use any other ports outbound at all - not any of the P2P
> service ports (unless they use HTTP, SSL, DNS or the POP ports).
>
> If that's what you want, even a cheap SOHO Firewall (not a NAT router)
> will do what you want - they are under $500 in most cases.
>

Ok, sorry guys. When I say usenet/newsgroup I say newsgroup cus some
people might know that term better then the word usenet.

What I am talking about is to filter usenet so specific usenet
newsgroups are blocked, but you can still access the rest of usenet and
non blocked newsgroups.. We need access to usenet, but not to some
groups, and I want the firewall device to be able to do that.

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