Blocking Instant Messenger Apps at the DNS Level

Chris Parker chrisp2 at pacbus.com
Fri May 11 16:22:07 UTC 2001


I was able to block AOL Instant Messenger by putting an entry for
LOGIN.OSCAR.AOL.COM (that points to nothing) in our DNS.

Anyone know how to block Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and ICQ at the DNS
also?  Do they "login" in the servers using a particular DNS query?  If so, what
are the lookups that they do?


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