Re: Blocking Kazaa

[Jean-Rene Cormier <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca>]

I haven't checked the source ports but I doubt after all they did to get
around firewalls that they would put fixed source ports. Though I'll
check it out, you never know.

Jean-Rene Cormier


On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:23, SBlaze wrote:
> I don't know much about Kazzaa I never used it...but you said you checked the
> connection ports right? What about source ports. Check both the source and the
> destination port(s) and see if you see any consistencies. Sometimes you don't
> need to block ALL ports just the ones that initiate a connection.
> 
> Hope this helps
> SBlaze
> 
> --- Jean-Rene Cormier <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca> wrote:
> > Anybody know a way of blocking Kazaa? I've tried the string matching way
> > but it doesn't seem to work. I tried logging all connections from  my
> > windows desktop so I could see to which port it connects and it connects
> > to so many different port that you basically need to block ports 1000 to
> > 4000 but after that it connects to port 80 which obviously I can't
> > block. I installed ethereal on the windows desktop to check which string
> > I could filter but couldn't find anything useful.
> > 
> > Anybody have an idea what can be done? I'm thinking another option would
> > be to block the IP of the servers but there seem to be quite a list...
> > that's if it doesn't just try some random IPs...
> > 
> > Jean-Rene Cormier
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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