Re: how to block ALL AIM traffic ?

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Hello

Realized Mofo wrote:
> BUT AOL seems to have found a great way around this and has 4000+
> diffrent ports they use and i'd assume lots of diffrent hosts.
>
>
> Whats the best way of blocking all AIM traffic ?

You deny all outgoing connections, then you accept only outgoing 
connections to the ports that you enable in your firewall config (http, 
ftp, ssh ?). But, I think that people can continue using AIMs with http 
only (there are some web sites giving this kind of service for free like 
http://www.e-messenger.net/). A host based firewall rule should handle 
that! Remember also that if you are opening ssh access, people can use 
ssh tunneling and bypass firewall rules.

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