and Africa will continue to be the bottom billion. <div><br></div><div>Instead of encouraging students to be part of the global village we are corrupting name resolution to stop poor students from accessing social media.<div>
<br></div><div>This is heartbreaking.</div><div><br></div><div>D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><b>Whatever method you use for URL Blocking can always be defeated by using a proxy server</b></div><div><b>But for someone with limited  administrative rights, the following may work for non-techie kids</b></div>
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<b><br></b></div><div><b>Method1.</b></div><div>Assuming that all the nodes of the child domain are in one location, and are on the same NW switch</div>Reconfigure one of the computers in the domain to serve as a gateway to the rest of the network.<div>


You can install an opensource proxy like squid and block whichever site you want to block.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Method 2.</b></div><div>Go to every windows machine open the hosts file and append the lines below</div>


<div><div><br></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">127.0.0.1       <a href="http://facebook.com" target="_blank">facebook.com</a></font></div></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">127.0.0.1       <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">www.facebook.com</a></font></div>


<div><br></div><div>The host file is located at &quot;<span style="font-family:monospace, &#39;Courier New&#39;;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px">%SystemRoot%</span><span style="font-family:monospace, &#39;Courier New&#39;;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px">\system32\drivers\etc\</span>&quot; for both win32 and win64</div>


<div>where <span style="border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><font face="monospace, &#39;Courier New&#39;">%SystemRoot% </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">is the windows installation folder e.g.</font><font face="monospace, &#39;Courier New&#39;"> &quot;C:\windows&quot;</font></span></div>


<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px">This will redirect any facebook url requests back to localhost</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><br></span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:arial;line-height:normal"><div>

<b>Method 3.</b></div><div>Tumia kiboko</div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:19px"><br>

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