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Re: how to block AOL IM using DNS spoofing?

From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2001
Time: 4:24:04 pm

On 04/05/01 at 15:57, Aaron Lynch wrote:

> My suggestion to Kill students caught with non-standard software met with an
> unusual degree of resistance at my school. Something about 'liability',
> 'parents', 'morality' yadda yadda yadda

Well, yes, if you want to be a stickler. But what about emotional
satisfaction? Doesn't it count for _anything_ anymore? ;-)

> On 04/05/2001 3:54 PM, The Defendant "Global Homes Webmaster"
> <webmaster@globalhomes.com> Confessed:
>
> > On 04/05/01 at 15:35, Richard James wrote:
> >
> >> I understand that AIM tries different ports via which to talk to
> >> login.oscar.aol.com. That is why I cannot simply add entries to my
> >> ACL in the access router.
> >>
> >> My thinking is, if I can deny access to that host altogether (by
> >> tricking it via a faulty DNS resolution) I can stop the conversation
> >> that way.
> >>
> >> If I enter DNS into Open Transport and then lock it so that users are
> >> unable to change it, I deny them from trying any other DNS than mine.
> >>
> >> This would work, wouldn't it?
> >
> > Wouldn't it be easier to just remove AIM from the computers on your
> > network? If it ain't there, the machines won't be going out looking
> > for login.oscar.aol.com. Of course, that assumes that you have that
> > degree of control over what your network users do on their
> > computers, and I realize that's not necessarily a realistic
> > assumption.

Christopher Bort



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