Seems that the Napster server is at 208.49.239.248 on port 5555, dont know
if that is constant. Their web server is on 208.49.239.246
At 01:50 PM 12/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
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>> Alot of users on my LAN of decided to take advantage of our bandwidth by
>> spending their time chugging away at MP3s using Napster.
>> Has anyone found an easy of filtering napster?
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>This is an even worse problem than it appears. When Napster is running,
>even if it is minimized and not being actively used, users on the
>external network can download from certain directories on computers on
>the internal network selected when Napster is set up. I have not had
>time to figure out what ports are used or other details. My guess is
>that the Napster program makes outbound connections with a server,
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