How do you block Google Gmail

[ArizonaGeek]

I am having a hard time blocking Google's Gmail. At my firewall (Symantec Gateway 5400) I have blocked gmail.google.com, gmail.com and about every combination I can think of and yet I can still get to my Gmail account and login. Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo and a few others are blocked with no problem but Gmail seems to be hassle. Think blocking their MX record would work? I finally gave up for the day but just curious if anyone has blocked them. Thanks for any help!

Cheers
Rob

 

[JockMullin]

Try mail.google.com, not gmail.google.com.

Of course unless you block pop3 & smtp ports also then they will still be able to access google mail via email clients by going thru their mail servers.

Jock

 

[ArizonaGeek]

Well, I think I have a work around that should do the trick. I think I will just route the pages to local host in DNS, that'd cure it. Or route it to some other website like google.com.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers
Rob

 

[woodsmanvr]

We use surf control to block certain websites. I currently can block all web based email using surf control and I get email notification when someone fails an attempt. It works good for us.

 

[Grenage]

Hi, Rob.

Any idea how routing specific addresses or domains by using internal DNS servers is achieved? I had a look into it a little while ago, I didn't have much luck!

Russell.

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.