On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:28:01 -0700, Arfur wrote:

> Leythos wrote:
>
>> If you boss won't pay for anything with a base as large as your, well, the
>> hosts file updates/maintenance will cost more than the firewill and
>> provides a BETTER ability to protect the network/users. Your host file is
>> of limited value and does nothing to protect your network from new or
>> other methods of access.
>
> But I want to choke off the traffic at its source, thus preserving not
> just bandwidth, but the processing on the IPSO firewalls, which is
> already running high enough.
>
> If the IE browser simply never sends the requests, then the network
> has no work to do EITHER serving up the crap OR detecting it as crap
> and following the rulebase you've set.
>
> This is worth doing on those desktops which spend all day every day
> surfing the web - less than 2% of PCs which seem to generate a very
> sizable proportion of all the daily HTTP traffic.
> It's not worth doing anywhere else.
>
> I also made some DNS poison entries to nail the big stupid domains
> that do the browser add-on bars and stupid useless stuff like date-
> manager.
> Additionally, I knackered Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger, Skype and
> all that kind of crap which people waste their time playing with at
> work.

What you seem to miss is that the central administration point, the fact
that different users can have different access at the same computer, the
fact that once people learn they can't, that they will stop trying, that
central administration is much better.

I'll stick with our simple solution, that works at many levels that your
host file doesn't.
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