Control Facebook.com web access

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1

Hello, we have setup the web proxy rule for facebook.com, but our students are still able to visit this web site.

Our web proxy rule settings are:
Dst.Host [ facebook.com ] we have tried both an upper and lower case F
Action [ Deny ]
Redirect to [ .Htm ] page

Any suggestions would be appreciated as to how to stop the web access to this site, as at this time only this web address is not controlled.

2

could you paste exact rule you added that does not work?

for example i have rule that blocks all the urls that ends with *.mp3

[admin@Mikrotik] > ip proxy access export
/ip proxy access
add action=deny comment="" disabled=no path=*.mp3
3

Dst.Host [ facebook.com ] will block only facebook.com and nothing else. It is best to use regular expressions in this case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression. For example, Dst.Host [ facebook ] will block any domain containing word “facebook” including facebook.com, www.facebook.com and www.facebook.se etc.

4

Thank you for your suggestions and we will try the following type of rules:
facebook
*.mp3
:login.yahoo
:mail.yahoo

We have to wait until school starts to see if this will help us control our student’s web access.

5

be careful with regular expressions, you are blocking every url that is containing facebook even page intranet.local/facebook_off_limits.html

6

Thank you for your note and we will watch what happens with our students.