Hi: You could download Iptstate and install it on your Linux Router. Then connect and disconnect several times to Yahoo with a client machine while monitoring on the Router with Iptstate. Once you know the IP’s, just block them. My understanding is that this is more efficient than using host names anyway. Hope that helps. Stu…….. -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org [mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Rob Sterenborg Sent: October 7, 2002 12:09 AM To: 'harvey@hnu.edu.ph' Cc: 'netfilter@lists.netfilter.org' Subject: RE: Yahoo Messenger > Ive already tried this about a month ago and but theres an > error saying that "host/network 'cs1.yahoo.com' not found" > ... this is also treu with cs2 and cs3 ...hmmm am i the only > one getting this kind of error? Pls tell me Right. I should have checked that. Aren't there any servers mentioned in the messenger setup (I don't use it myself) ? I just checked on cs.yahoo.com and that one exists but everytime I ping that server I'm redirected to cs41.msg.sc5.yahoo.com (216.136.233.128). I don't know if that's the same one for you ? Rob