Re: [squid-users] how do I block facebook?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:29:04 +1200

On 21/08/2013 11:58 p.m., Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote:
> El 20/08/13 21:21, junio escribió:
>> I'm okay to block facebook in the company I work for, I can not
>> redirect port
>> 443 successfully.
>>
>>
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> If you cannot redirect 443 port you should block facebook in a lower
> layer, not squid.
>
> You can poison your DNS so it don't answer facebook.com and fbcdn.net
> queries. This will work only if all your clients are using your DNS.
> You can redirect all the tcp/udp port 53 traffic to your own DNS to
> ensure this.
>
> Another way is to block the traffic in the IP layer.
>
> with:
>
> whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934'
>
> You can have an updated facebook IPs lists.

Thinking of which there is the dst_as ACL type in Squid to block based
on the ASN number. Also requires a whois server configured in the
as_whois_server directive.

PS. I'm not sure how well it works since IPv6 support was added.
Feedback welcome.

Amos
Received on Fri Aug 23 2013 - 10:29:14 MDT

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