[CentOS] Blocking radio streaming

Thu May 3 16:44:49 UTC 2007
Alan Bunch <Alan.Bunch at udfc.com>

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

>Mário Gamito wrote:
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>>I've been noticing that many people spend the whole day hearing to 
>>online radios.
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>>How can i block the streaming ?
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>>It's HTTP and i think it's through port 80.
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>Block HTTP outgoing }:->
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>>PS: No good blocking the radio sites, they'll discover others.
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>It's always problematic to try to solve social problems by using
>technical means. 
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>Anyway: If you use squid as an HTTP proxy, you can block a) either the
>clients
><http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200511/0327.html>
>or use squid to block by mime type
><http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200511/0534.html>.
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>Those are just examples, you might find more of those by using google.
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>Cheers,
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>Ralph
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Yea, those might work, but I find a good public flogging is very effective.

Also a sternly worded email from HR to everyone reminding them of the 
company acceptable use policy works wonders. You do have each employee 
sign an acceptable use policy on hiring don't you ?

Alan