RE: OT: (maybe) IPTABLEs and MSN

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. In the registry, navigate to: \HKUR\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService\

2. Find the item named Server: messenger.hotmail.com;64.4.13.50:1863.
Change
this value to Null;0.0.0.0:0

That's it. Combine this with a program that can perform this change, put it
on a force run, and No More Chatting!

or

Here's the trick:

Put a line in your hosts file on the pc which tells the msn messenger to
look for the MSN server on localloopback. Voila! 127.0.0.0
gateway.messenger.hotmail.com is the server address to use.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
robin
Sent: 15 April 2005 19:39
To: UKHA Group
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: (maybe) IPTABLEs and MSN



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