Instant Messaging Woes

[Wil McGilvery]

Some of the IM clients use port 80 when their other port is blocked. I know MSN does this. The only way to block this is to start using an application proxy.

I may not be able to control who they chat with, but it would nice to have log files for reference.

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Cozens
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 1:01 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Instant Messaging Woes

At 10:49 AM 08/09/2004, Wil McGilvery wrote:
>I am now in the position of having to regulate Instant Message clients in 
>our Network. Does anyone have experience with this?
[snip]
>I would like to:
>
>Use an internal IM system for staff to use.
>Allow certain employees to connect to the outside world.
>Keep track of who they connect to.
[snip]
>I don't want to shutdown the Instant Message clients completely. Currently 
>the client of choice is MSN.

I don't know how easy it would be to keep track of who someone is chatting 
with via an IM client. As for controlling it, the first step would be in 
identifying the port(s) used by the client. In the case of ICQ, it used 
port 4000 (IIRC). With that program, you could control use of it by adding 
rules to your firewall related to the use of port 4000.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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