Re: [squid-users] Squid to block P2P apps

But kazaa uses port 80... if i put this acl, kazaa will still working and
some sites will not work.

So a will introduce another problem, right?

Thanks a lot,
Mauricio.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: <Squid-users@Squid-cache.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid to block P2P apps

> On Saturday 27 September 2003 2:15 pm, Mauricio Portilho Cavalcanti wrote:
>
> > I'm using Transparent Proxy to my LAN and i'm trying to block P2P apps.
> >
> > I read that if i put:
> > acl Safe_port 80
> > http_acces deny !Safe_port
> >
> > kazaa will be blocked. I didn't try this yet... will i have normal
access
> > to internet with this acl?
>
> This ACL will only permit access to servers running on port 80. This is
> likely to interfere with your users' web browsing, because quite a number
of
> legitimate web servers run on things like port 8000, port 8080, and even
some
> others.
>
> So, it will not cause any problems for web servers running on the standard
> HTTP port 80, but it willcause problems if they use anything else.
Whether
> this is important to you depends on the websites your users try to visit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
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Received on Sat Sep 27 2003 - 07:43:34 MDT