Re: Napster Access

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Anastasia Soudbinina, sie wrote:
> Does it also block web-based napster?

An example of this being ?  There is a program called "napigator" which
is not a problem - it's just for listing which servers are registered.
If you mean web-based napster where download of MP3's is down to web
servers and likewise the napster server is a web server, then no, but
you should be able to deal with that anyway.  Start by forcing all web
traffic through a proxy and then block "*.mp3" or similar.

> Moreover, do I get it right that it could be quite resource consuming?

Depends on what you deem to be "quite resource consuming".  If you mean
that you will have trouble using it on a PC with 640k of memory, then
yes.  Likewise you would more than likely have trouble getting a PC with
a 386SX-25 to deal with a full duplex 100BaseT pipe.  If you're asking
does it gobble up RAM as fast as Microsoft applications do just to load,
then no, it's not very resource consuming at all but every added "feature"
has a cost so running without it will have some impact, but whether that
is measurable or not is another thing.

Darren

> From: ark () eltex ru
> To: soudbinina () hotmail com
> CC: dcon () iss ca, firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Napster Access
> Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 18:56:12 +0400
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> "Anastasia Soudbinina" <soudbinina () hotmail com> said :
>
>  > try searching archives on http://www.lists.gnac.net/firewalls/
>  > Napster topic has been discussed there in details recently.
>  > Short resume - to block it you need proxy server with DENY BY DEFAULT
>  > policy. Otherwise it'll find a way.
>  > Best regards,
>  > Anastasia
>  >
>  >
>  > From: Dave Conroy <dcon () iss ca>
>  > Reply-To: Dave Conroy <dcon () iss ca>
>  > To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
>  > Subject: [fw-wiz] Napster Access
>  > Date: 13 Apr 2000 12:14 PDT
>  >
>  > Hi all;
>  > I know this has been answered many times, however I failed to pay 
> attention
>  > to it.
>  > Alot of users in my organization are using Napster for extremely long
>  > periods; how would I go about blocking their access so users could not
>  > access their music files etc?
>  >
>  > Any help/comments/webpages would be appreciated!
>
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