[gptalk] Re: Website
- From: "Omar Droubi" <omar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:01:05 -0700
All of these suggestions are good ones but- as the IT administrator you
should present to your manager, and he or she should present to the
execs that to effectively manage web access including restrictions,
monitoring and reporting, a web proxy server should be deployed and all
outgoing web requests should be forwarded through the proxy via network
routing or browser proxy settings with tight outgoing port restrictions
controlled at the network gateway.
Using the IE restricted sites, HOSTS files or creating a IPsec policy or
a placeholder bogus DNS zone to solve this political issue is a
workaround and not really a good one.
Restricting web traffic is a political issue and as the IT admin or IT
manager- hand off the responsibility of creating the policy or owning
the approved site list if you can and make the company pay.
Now of course if you are administering public institution or school that
is limited in funding and administrative staff- and you can't get an
educational discount of a functional feature rich proxy solution- any of
the suggested work-arounds will work.
I have to go and get off my soap box now..
Omar
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:21 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Website
Craig,
You can use the IPSec techniques outlined in this walkthrough...
http://www.petri.co.il/block_internet_but_allow_intranet_with_ipsec.htm
to enable you to block certain websites via a group policy. It's VERY
easy to do. We had a problem with users visiting naughty sites and with
this technique, I can effectively block all web access, allow local
intranet browsing, allow only specific sites to be allowed, or finally,
what you are looking for, block individual sites.
Read through it. Again, it's very easy to alter the IPSec rules to block
a single web site.
Alternately, in your DNS servers, I use MS DNS so I can't say this could
apply to you, but you could create a new domain, say myspace.com, and
make a bogus DNS entry for it. That way, when any machine tries to go to
myspace.com, it will not resolve.
Either of those techniques should work great for you.
Michael
SDSU
Hi guys
Can i block a website through a GPO?
Craig Meyer
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