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Stopping msn 6 from connecting
since msn 6 uses multiple ways of connecting to it's servers it's not easy to stop msn6 from connecting.
Is there a way that stops msn 6 from connecting? ALL ports are closed only 80 is open, so msn can only connect trough that port.
normally i would use a firewall. but it's for students on a school so there are always some students who just deletes the firewall, you know the story :).
Thanks in advance,
Erik
Is there a way that stops msn 6 from connecting? ALL ports are closed only 80 is open, so msn can only connect trough that port.
normally i would use a firewall. but it's for students on a school so there are always some students who just deletes the firewall, you know the story :).
Thanks in advance,
Erik
You could block access to the MSN server ip addresses at your firewall or router. What kind of internet connection is it? router? firewall?
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yeah it is possible to block the ip adresses but it isn't really known WHICH ip adresses are used by msn 6 and still if you know it, it are like... 200 servers running. not that it isn't worth it but okay.
so then i need to know the server list of msn 6
so then i need to know the server list of msn 6
Well if you have your own DNS server there's another way. You could create a zone for msn.com and leave it empty. So when the msn messenger client tries to do a dns lookup on the server address, it'll fail because it will resolve locally to nothing.
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it's not the problem to block the server's the problem is that it has so much and we don't know them all
Put an entry in the "host" file locally, and point the queries to 127.0.0.1?
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ASKER
yeah i already know that solution but please READ it's not the problem of blocking it's the problem that we need to know it's server list
Sniff it out... http://www.ethereal.com/
ASKER
already using that one... but with more then 200 servers takes like forever
With my solution (adding a zone on your dns server for msn.com) ANY dns lookup on an address that ends msn.com will fail so you don't need to know any server addresses.
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not really what i wanted but we will see thanks for the stuff you told, i did my own research and i found out that msn has someway it's own protocol for connecting ( use netstat when msn is connected ) youll see it doesnt uses tcp or udp but some own weird protocol. maybe the protocol is blockable