Re: OT: Blocking FB chat

I haven't tried it, but I think that you could add a record for chat.facebook.com to your local DNS servers. Set it up so that has no A records, then clients won't be able to connect to it. Smarter people will still be able to get around that easily enough.

Better is to use a proxy, and filter URLs.

If you don't currently control DNS + general outbound traffic (through proxies, etc), then you've got far bigger issues anyway.

On 28/06/2012, at 8:47 AM, Victor Cappuccio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> without any 007 configuration, or expensive units, i will open a opendns
> account and have the inside PCs resolve on that OpenDNS address and filter
> other DNS packets going out
>
> my 2 cents
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Andrew Podosenin <
> andrew.podosenin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Iron Port has the add-on feature that allows for detailed handling of
>> social networks, including blocking specific activity.
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>> Subject: OT: Blocking FB chat
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>> Guys,
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>> Suggestions to allow FB but block out the chat option alone.
>> Appreciate your help.
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