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| - | ===== How-to block access to Facebook and Myspace ===== | + | ====== How-to block access to Facebook and Myspace |
| - | Q. I would like to know if there a way to block access to Facebook and Myspace as well as instant messaging. I tried to block myspace.com before and it only blocked it that one way leaving countless other ways to access it. Same with Facebook. Others like meebo.com and koolim.com are much of a pest as well. | + | ===== Question ===== |
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| + | I would like to know if there a way to block access to Facebook and Myspace as well as instant messaging. I tried to block myspace.com before and it only blocked it that one way leaving countless other ways to access it. Same with Facebook. Others like meebo.com and koolim.com are much of a pest as well. | ||
| - | A. I suspect the problem is that you can't block encrypted (https) connections by domain name. The connection is encrypted so you can't tell whether you're connecting to a given site. | + | ===== Answer ===== |
| - | S. Try doing an nslookup to determine the ip(s) of the sites you want to block. For example, if I run: | + | I suspect the problem is that you can't block encrypted (https) connections by domain name. The connection is encrypted so you can't tell whether you're connecting to a given site. |
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| + | **S.** Try doing an nslookup to determine the ip(s) of the sites you want to block. For example, if I run: | ||
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| $nslookup facebook.com | $nslookup facebook.com | ||
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