Re: Napster Block Ipchains Debian 2.2

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> > My firewall is using Debian and my damn boss
> > asked me to block napster.

> Don't try to block napster by port number. Just understand
> how napster works.
>
> It works by letting a client query the *napster* server for lists
> of systems that have a particular song. The client then goes
> to the listed system and retrieves the song.
>
> Well, just block the napster site using ipchains, then no
> indexing can be done.

But there are many, many Napster servers... can you block them with
"*.napster.com", "napster.*.*" or similar ?? As far as IP addresses,
what if they're not in a block, but have a wide variety of addresses ??

Hall