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  • 13-01-2003 9:28pm
    #1
    buzz11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭


    What settings can I use in IE to limit access to just two websites and no others?


    Thanks folks!
    :confused:


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  • #2
    rob1891
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rob1891


    Could you disable dns lookups and add the hostname and IP addresses of the two sites you want to view to your hosts file?


    edit: below is how to do such a thing!


  • #3
    rob1891
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭rob1891


    Okay, I am presuming you are on a dialup connection and you do not need hostnames (www.google.com or whatever) resolved into IP addresses for anything other than browsing.

    To diable DNS you need to specify two dns servers that shock horror don't exist! To do this:

    o right click, properties on your internet connection in the Network and Dial-up section of the control panel.

    o move to the Networking tab in the properties window, select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and click on properties

    o in the new window click the "Use the following DNS ...." radio button and enter two ficticious private IP addresses such as 192.168.0.253 and 192.168.0.254. (Private addresses are in a number of set ranges, 192.168.x.x is one of those!).

    At this point your internet connection should be pretty much useless. Your browser won't be able to convert www.boards.ie into 195.218.115.65 which it needs to do to connect to it!

    Now, there is a local file on your computer that you can use to store these mappings, in windows 2000 it is in <windows dir>\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS. You can edit this file and include lines in the format:

    195.218.115.65 www.boards.ie

    Add to this file whatever websites you want to be able to view and their IP addresses and you are all set!!

    To find out the IP addresses of the sites you want to view start up a command prompt and do the following (do this before you change the dns stuff!!):
    C:\>ping www.boards.ie

    Pinging www.boards.ie [195.218.115.65] with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 195.218.115.65: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=59
    Reply from 195.218.115.65: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=59

    Ping statistics for 195.218.115.65:
    Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 55ms
    Control-C
    ^C
    C:\>


    rob!


    (ps, i think this is a really crap idea, it's just the first thing that came to my head, I'm sure there is a neater way to do it with some small firewall application!)


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