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    Blocking Yahoo and MSN

    hi techies,
    I ve a problem here with blocking Yahoo and MSN chat programs on my uncles Router (netgear 614) which only allows me to block particular sites and ports. i was unable to block the services using IPchains and particular ports used by the services. Can i get some guidance on how to block the services on Netgear RP 614 Router ps.
    thnx
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    Both are hard to block since they can be reconfigured to avoid the firewall.

    What I do is block the initial connections on their standard ports and create an IDS rule to alert me of the activity. Oh, prior to that I made sure I scared the bejeebers out of the users as to what I would do if I catch them..... Seems to work.....

    Remember: there are some administrative problems for which there are no technological solutions.....
    Don\'t SYN us.... We\'ll SYN you.....
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    Both will be very problematic as they use port 80 and unpriv ports for authentication/communication. But it's NOT impossible...just takes work.

    Believe you me, I went through all of this a year ago at home with my teenage daughters. I finally was able to block AOL, Yahoo, and MSN, but with a mixture of several things. I just don't think a Netgear will do it for you, but someone may prove me wrong...

    For AOL, using IPTables I blocked port 5190 in and out, and anything going to login.oscar.aol.com, and then I also added any website aol had where you could download AIM into squidGuard (works with squid proxy server, all of this runs on Linux) so that I could block any attempt to download the client. All the kids would get was a nice little page that said...go away....

    For Yahoo I blocked every IP address Yahoo was known to use for messenger services using IPTABLES. I also blocked port 5050 in and out. I don't have the list of ip's handy, but I could post later on if you want. I also add all associated web sites for yahoo messenger to squidGuard for the same reasons as AIM above....

    Now....MSN was the tough part. No matter what I tried, I had the hardest time blocking it. The thing that did the trick for me was a squid.conf entry that goes like this:

    acl kids src 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.255
    acl msnmessenger req_mime_type ^application/x-msn-messenger$
    http_access deny kids msnmessenger

    Then, on your network, you have to force your user browsers through your proxy cache, either by browser config, or by transparent proxy (I chose the latter using IPTABLES).

    Worked like a charm.
    Pete Fanning

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    interesting
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    thnx for the reply guys.. I m trying to block it for my Uncle (same reason Teenage daughter).
    can you ps post the IPs to block so that I may try them. Nothin so far seems to work. It s home network so it doesnt has any Networking Equipment except the Netgear Router. SO my best bet is to work on IP tables and ports. I would really appreciate if some one could post the list of ports which I should allow for the normal functioning (HTTP,FTP etc.)and block all the other ports so that user may only surf the net, download but be unable to do anything else.
    thnx
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    Ok....here's an outtake of a source file for my iptables script...Yahoo by far takes up the most space......obviously the envars and such will be different but you're most interested in the ports and ip's.....

    #
    #
    # Chat System Blocks
    #
    # AOL
    #$IPT -A SHUN -d 64.12.161.153 -j BAD_IP
    #$IPT -A SHUN -d 64.12.161.185 -j BAD_IP
    #$IPT -A SHUN -d 64.12.200.89 -j BAD_IP
    #$IPT -A SHUN -d 205.188.179.233 -j BAD_IP

    # Block Yahoo Messenger
    #
    # Yahoo Music
    #$IPT -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.100.0/24 -d 0/0 --dport 1755 -j $STOP
    #
    #$IPT -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.100.30/32 -d 0/0 --dport 5050 -j $STOP
    #$IPT -t filter -A OUTPUT -p udp -s 192.168.100.30/32 -d 0/0 --dport 5050 -j $STOP

    # cbs.yahoo.com
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.58 -j BAD_IP

    # msg1.edit.vip.sc5.yahoo.com
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.136.225.238 -j BAD_IP

    # dl1.yahoo.com thru dl4.yahoo.com
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.201.134 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.201.141 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.36 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.37 -j BAD_IP

    # p1.msg.yahoo.com thru p5.msg.yahoo.com
    # p7.msg.yahoo.com thru p18.msg.yahoo.com
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.79 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.78 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.57 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.56 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.136 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.138 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.26 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.86 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.153 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.105.112 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.105.113 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.105.114 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.105.115 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.84 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.107.252 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.107.253 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.107.254 -j BAD_IP

    # old cs[1-9].msg.yahoo.com ips...kept just for the heck of it
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.119 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.55 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.107.146 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.57 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.201.100 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.59 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.202.58 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 204.71.200.54 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.115.105.57 -j BAD_IP

    # Block messenger.yahoo.com
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.109.116.177 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.136.232.153 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 66.163.172.51 -j BAD_IP
    $IPT -A SHUN -d 216.109.116.176 -j BAD_IP

    # Block MSN using Squid
    # Note: You can try blocking all inbound/outbound to ports 6891:6901 and 1080
    # but I don't believe that works anymore.
    Pete Fanning

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    MSN seems to be the hardest for everyone to block. It took some hardcore configuration for us to keep out staff from using MSN. However, the easiest route that we took was to disable SOCKS 5 in the logon script. So far, no one has proved they needed SOCKS to do their Job. Some of the women in the office wear sandles anyway
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    Fraggin: Do me a favor...... give me the text from the script that disables the socks.... I'm sure some others will appreciate it too....
    Don\'t SYN us.... We\'ll SYN you.....
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    fanningp and fraggin,

    Just a thought guys, Would it be possable for you to post your information as a Tutorial?

    cheers
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    Alternate idea would be to just disable all ports on the client computer, and set up a LAN http proxy that only accepts incoming connections on port 80. just configure the used browser to use that proxy, and then disable reconfiguring of browser by non-administrator users. That way any rouge applications at all will not be able to gain any internet acces, and, most likely, the user(s) will not know how to tunnel the AOL or Yahoo! Instant Messenger services through the proxy, and even if they do, you can configure it to search for the login string and have it just dismiss the traffic.

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