Blocking URLs with DNS?

[SerialCoder]

Is there a way to make a DNS entry that sends my clients to a diffent site? I have to block certian sites on my lan from my clients and am looking for a more centralized method than hosts files.

Thanks.

Regards,
Dave

 

[GlenJohnson]

Check out this site.

http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/dns-advert.html

Glen A. Johnson
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[LloydSev]

yes you can... however, you would need to create a new Forward Lookup Zone for each domain..

very very not fun to maintain.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[spike0724]

Another option is to set it up on your local PC and replicate those setting to your AD security Policies and remove the security tab from IE again through AD security Policies.

S. Mike Harris

"If there we 90 seconds in a minute, I might get everything done in a day" - S. M. Harris

 

[Claudek]

Don't see why you can't have a centralised HOST file.

Have that master HOST file copy over the client's copy via a login script. This way you just make changes to the master copy and everyone else gets the changes as well.

Only thing here is how you work with the login script - You can put in the line to copy the HOST file to the machine and take it out the next day. Problem here is besides having to do this everytime you change the HOST file, some machines may not be updated if no one logs in to them on that day.

I have clients who need to update macros etc on all client PCs where the master macros reside on the server. What I do is have robocopy included in their Windows\System32 folder in their SOE rollout or have a line in their logon script that checks for the existence of robocopy.exe and copies it across should they not have it. With Robocopy's /XO switch, used later in the script, only updated/new files get copied across (some clients have 100s of different macros for Office) which makes reduces login time a bit (no more need to copy across all macros, just the updated ones) and gets the job done in a centralised method.

Just an idea.



Claudius (What certifications??)

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