-tictech message:
The keyword in my article is "Simple". Your suggests are hardly simple and
involves pieces that 99% of SSD teachers have no access to. And, how many
students walk around with a head full of dotted decimal TCP/IP
addresses? I can only remember two myself.
-Wes
Wes Felty <wfelty@gte.net>
At 11:51 PM 9/26/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>-tictech message:
>
>At 08:54 PM 9/26/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >There is a system built into Windows that allows a number of Internet
> >options including faster name resolution, letting you use shortcut names
> >rather than IP addresses to contact other computers, and to do some
> >Internet filtering. This involves a file in Windows named "hosts". I've
> >held off posting this since I'm having trouble getting it working at
> >Ingraham (it works great at home). I don't know if the problem is
related
> >to Ingraham or everywhere inside Seattleschools WAN. So, I hope a few
> >people will try it and report if it works at their school site. Here is
> >how it works.
>
>[snip]
>
>The "hosts" file is a pretty standard internet thing. I know that all Unix
>machines can be supplemented this way (including OS X Macs), but I am not
>sure if OS9 Macs include it. There are some caveats:
>
>This will not prevent students from accessing a web site if they know the
>IP (the dotted quad number, ala 206.117.45.101). This is trivial to get,
>even non-tech savvy students can easily learn how from those in the
(cut - ma)
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