[xkidmidnightx]

Hi, I have a problem that has been bugging me for a couple of weeks.

My friends recently discovered a horrible blog/hookup site called Myspace. Now it is bad enough that they spend all their time on it when they are at their houses, but when they come over here they sprint straight for my iMac and log on to it.

Aside from getting new friends how can I stop this (i.e. Somehow blocking the page from loading).

I tried changing stuff in netinfo:

http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...ddamnit0qn.jpg

And in the terminal:

http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img...age=term0wm.png

Restarted (just to make sure), and still myspace happily comes up.

Please oh please tell me how to kill this insidious page.

[GENERAL_SMILEY]

Hey just change it in your etc/hosts file - follow the example given here for a different website, obviously entering the horrendous Myspace community address, instead of Slashdot.

Of course you could just join them.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by xkidmidnightx:
And in the terminal:

http://img114.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...ge=term0wm.png

I don't know about Netinfo, but to block the host with the /etc/hosts file you'll want an entry such as:

Code:
127.0.0.1    www.myspace.com

Note that I didn't include the "http://" like you did, simply the IP and the hostname are all you need.

But that's no fun, you should redirect them somewhere, like maybe Apples's website:

Code:
thefro:~ root# host www.apple.com
www.apple.com           CNAME   www.apple.com.akadns.net
www.apple.com.akadns.net        A       17.254.0.91
thefro:~ root# echo -e "17.254.0.91\twww.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts

Have fun.

[Chuckit]

I'd want to redirect them here.

That ought to leave them good and confused.

[SSharon]

If you are using a router you can easily block certain sites with it. I know this is possible with my linksys and I assume its very similar with other routers. Although its no as fun as redirecting them somewhere else its very easy to do.

[Kristoff]

lock them out with ipfw

[Chuckit]

I thought ipfw (as of Panther, at least) didn't have the ability to block outgoing traffic, just incoming.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
I thought ipfw (as of Panther, at least) didn't have the ability to block outgoing traffic, just incoming.

You can block anything with ipfw, for example:

Code:
thefro:~ root# ipfw add deny ip from me to www.myspace.com   
00100 deny ip from me to 69.89.74.24
thefro:~ root# ping www.myspace.com
PING www.myspace.com (69.89.74.24): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Permission denied
ping: wrote www.myspace.com 64 chars, ret=-1
^C

ipfw's pretty cool.

[Chuckit]

Well, what do you know? That is pretty cool. Thanks for the tip.