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to block yahoo messenger, you have to block msg.messenger.yahoo.com, to block msn messenger, you have to block messenger.hotmail.com, and a whole load of other hosts that are redirected from there. If your

<snip ipchains rules> You forgot how you would deal with messengers over httpd (Should there now be a RFC for rpc.httpd? We already have a xml implementation available). Stopping IM is a matter of policy and cannot be wholly solved in a technical manner. Please contact management and tell them to write an AUP and enforce that.

I was unable to log onto yahoo, ICQ and msn from certain terminals and was able to do so from others. After spending a lot of time i found that after reducing the security level in the Internet Explorer to low I was able to log on to them (thro win98). MSN still gives me problems though. See if you can use it the reverse way.

Noel

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