Block all traffic to an IP

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You could null route the packets too.

route add <IP to blackhole> mask 255.255.255.255 <unused local network
address>

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>      In John's recent tech segment on Tor, he mentions blocking all traffic
> to an IP first since some tools inadvertently send traffic to a host, even
> if you mean not to. He mentioned an iptables command, but what about
> Windows?
>
> Would this be good enough (example blocks access to my site)?
>
>      netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Blockit" protocol=any
> dir=out action=block remoteip=208.97.169.250
>
> Then to get rid of the rule:
>
>      netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="Blockit"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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