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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:08:48 -0600
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From: Royce Tidwell <roycet@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: Excluding IP addresses
Cc: Jim Mackin <jmackin@hastings.edu>
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At 10:29 AM 11/1/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I am running freebsd 2.0.5.  I am having a problem when students are
>telnetting to a certain site which provides a chat service.  Is there a way
>to exclude certain sites from being accessed by our users?  

Jim,

You should be able to route the ip address you want to eliminate to
localhost, thus excluding all traffic to and from the site.  Something like:

$ route add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 127.0.0.1

I'm not sure on the syntax, I'm in win95 now, but you get the idea.

Royce Tidwell