Re: OT: (maybe) IPTABLEs and MSN

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

robin wrote:

>This might be off topic, but once I got it working I'm going to
>integrate the commands into MrHouse (if I have time).
>
>I've been trying to block MSN with IPTABLEs but whatever I do it seems
>to get through.  Want to control my teenagers access to this waste of
>time by blocking it at certain times. Their machines use NAT via my
>Linux machine to get to web.  When I look on the web there are loads of
>ideas but none seem to work.  It appears that once MSN sees port 1863
is
>blocked it reroutes via port 80. Any serious help/suggestions
>appreciated or maybe I just put their PCs up for sale :-)
>regards, robin
>
>
>
Can you do it via URL?

Firing up MSN Messenger here and then running netstat it looks like it's
connected to baym-cs152.msgr.hotmail.com:1863 could you not just filter
*.msgr.hotmail.com?

Cheers

Andy