blocking websites

[Tony Arnold]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 23:31 +0100, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:34 -0500, Chris Lemire wrote:
> > i have blocked myspace. here's how to do it.
> > 
> > echo "127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts 

That's not very secure. The user can just use the IP address in the URL
instead of the name!

Regards,
Tony.
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