Bebo

[devtester07]

cannot block this in my linksys router:S
tried putting in 207.7.149.50 for the ip the words bebo etc the url and nothing.i've specified the ip range etc:S i don't know what else to do...
I do NOT want my daughter using this service for obvious reasons.
any ideas from someone more experienced with routing?

[TiG]

Put www.bebo.com 127.0.0.1 in your local hosts file on your windows pc.

TiG

[Phil_P]

Put www.bebo.com 127.0.0.1 in your local hosts file on your windows pc.

TiG

Have a read of this site to see what TiG is referring to:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Basically, you can block any site by redirecting it to the black hole that is 127.0.0.1. So add the following lines to the end of your HOSTS file (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS) - you can use notepad - it's a plain text file despite the fact it does not have any extension (ie, hosts, not hosts.txt)

127.0.0.1  bebo.com
127.0.0.1  www.bebo.com

Obviously you'll need to do this on each computer she may use. To test, see if you can then visit the site - the first time you may still get through as IE is probably pulling the page from your cache... so hit refresh and you should get a standard error that the site isn't available.

Hope that helps

[ikonia]

you either need to get a new brain - or a new router

as you have asked exactly the same question in all these threads.

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=111000
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=107448
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=107036

Each time you get the same response.

12 posts and 8 of them are asking the same question.


What part of this are you not understanding ???

[adam1701]

he's obviously quite desperate!

and about blocking msn... probably a similar fix to the others... just a port in the case of msn.

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=105918

[ikonia]

but the questions are the same question - with the same answer - weeks/months apart.

Same question for each new site - surly it must have clicked you do the same thing for each site.

[devtester07]

well ikonia it must be my router as you say i'm aware of what to do but its working one minute blocking some then doesn't when disable/enabling blocking on the lists etc then it doesn't then it does.i'm unsure what to do.is there any tests i can run to see if its borked?
i've tried hard/soft resets/turning it off?it has the latest firmware so i have no idea what next to do short of a new router?

[ikonia]

If you bought it from somewhere like PC world try using their support service.

I don't don't believe you know what to do with this router - as you ask the same question over and over, the answer is not going to change. Is their a specific support forum for your router or a mailing list, try asking on that.

[devtester07]

If you bought it from somewhere like PC world try using their support service.

I don't don't believe you know what to do with this router - as you ask the same question over and over, the answer is not going to change. Is their a specific support forum for your router or a mailing list, try asking on that.

i got it from ebay sealed so i'm not sure.
i do know; you haven't read my posts correctly if you think that- it works then it doesn't...
for an example. i disable a working one then renable it after not changing anything and it will not now function.
do you get what I'm trying to put across now? I'm not "messing" it up or anything of the sort.It's purely choosing to work one minute it seems and not the next. The reason for this post was to see if like myspace i require more than one ip and urls list to put in my block list...

[listy]

get in touch with linksys then

[ikonia]

genuis listy - the obvious thing to do .