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Re: [suse-security] Blocking Kazaa and other P2P communication tools.
  • From: Johannes Bretscher <bretscher@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:11:42 +0200
  • Message-id: <20030819141142.GC2307@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:57:33PM +0100, Fred Merritt wrote:
> Forgive me, if I'm being a bit stupid here, because my brain is nested
> six levels deep in something else right now, but is it not possible to
> block outgoing requests to Kazaa?? If nobody can request anything,
> Kazaa, is not likely to send anything back, is it?

There is not one single Kazaa server. There are several of them and they
use several ports. You would have to maintain a blacklist and as I said
before this always means being one step behind.

>
> Best regards. . . Fred
>

Greetings,
Johannes

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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