[Full-disclosure] Blocking Skype
Kevin
kkadow at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 08:06:25 GMT 2005
On 11/13/05, dsluser at emirates.net.ae <dsluser at emirates.net.ae> wrote:
> I have had no problems at all with the above setup, and as a result,
> only Skype is blocked, as most(if not all) companies serious about
> having a web presence
> have registered domains and hence are referenced by their FQDN URLs.
This will also work for blocking Gnutella.
When blocking 'CONNECT' to destinations specified by IP, you may find
a few false-positives, I have seen a few legitimate sites in the squid
logs using CONNECT to an IP address.
Kevin Kadow
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