Re: [squid-users] MSN access

Actually, I just found out that MSN uses a protocol called UPnP and it is
not supported using IPTABLES firewall.. However, for those interested,
there is a web site on source forge where some one has fixed this problem:

http://linux-igd.sourceforge.net/index.php

Got to Love Linux and Open Source :-D

Thanks for the replies

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Joe Giles
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Joe Giles said:
> Yeah, I have .com specified. It looks like in the access.log that msn is
> trying to connect to an IP address. When I try to connect to an IP
> address, I get access denied.
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> Joe Giles
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> AOL: mcigiles
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> sue said:
>> I haven't tried with the MSN messenger, but i tried with yahoo and aol.
>> the
>> following is what
>> i had to set up in squid.conf for the yahoo messenger:
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>> acl chat_external dstdomain .yahoo.com
>> always_direct allow chat_external
>> never_direct allow all
>>
>> basically, allow .yahoo.com as your desitination.
>> you should change this for MSN messenger domain.
>>
>> sue
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joe Giles" <jgiles@joeman1.com>
>> To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:33 PM
>> Subject: [squid-users] MSN access
>>
>>
>>> List,
>>>
>>> Is there a special way to allow access to MSN messenger through Squid?
>>> I
>>> have set up MSN to use the proxy and it still cant connect. Does
>>> someone
>>> have a ACL that I can look at that allows this kind of traffic? Or
>>> maybe
>>> some documentation on it?
>>>
>>> I appreciate it...
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>>> Joe Giles
>>> jgiles@joeman1.com
>>> AOL: mcigiles
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>>> Registered Linux User #264910 http://counter.li.org
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>>>
>>>
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>>
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