How to block some sites in Local Area Network

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Hi Friends,

Is there any way to block some specific sites in Local Area network?

I have tried adding 127.0.0.1 local host in hosts.

But i am looking for another better way to do this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Znaneswar

Posted 16-Aug-14 6:00am

Znaneswar K

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[no name] 16-Aug-14 12:15pm

To what purpose? Why would you think blocking your own computer would work? Why don't you just not give the computers permission to access whatever it is that you are blocking? This sound more like network administration issue rather than a programming problem.

Znaneswar K 16-Aug-14 13:25pm

I'm working on employee based software. The requirement is . . need to block some social networking sites in working timings. That's the purpose.
I tried with host file. But its not working fine. because of cache sites are loading normally.

[no name] 16-Aug-14 13:33pm

You need a proxy server.

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-16T07:12:00

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Use a firewall to block prgrams.
Even Windows Defender should do the trick - http://www.howtogeek.com/122404/how-to-block-websites-in-windows-8s-hosts-file/[^].

Posted 16-Aug-14 7:12am

Abhinav S

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Znaneswar K 16-Aug-14 13:30pm

Yeah I have tried like that. But its not effecting on the browser. Data is storing in cache of browser and after blocking also sites are loading normally.
But its working after clearing the cache in the browser. But i want the way that effect immediately.

Abhinav S 16-Aug-14 13:32pm

You could disable caching in the browser.