One way to do it is to add the IP or URL it is trying to access to your hosts
file and set it equal to
127.0.0.1. That way everything sent to that URL/IP address is sent directly to
the bit bucket
without ever getting out of your machine.

Len Paris
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* There is no place like 127.0.0.1

----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert <sniper_lt@...>
> To: WRT54G@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:57:39 PM
> Subject: [WRT54G] How to stop access to a specifice EXTERNAL ip address.
>
> I have a program that I want to use called orbit downloader. But
> after reading articles on the web, I noted that it has a "phone
> home" behavior to a specific IP address. This might be nothing at
> all. None of the articles that I read noted any suspicious behaviour
> or spyware with this program. I just do not like ANYTHING that
> connects to an IP address unless I manually tell it to do so.
>
> I have a linksys wgrt Wireless G router. I know how to allow
> INCOMING addresses. I know how to restrict INTERNAL ip addresses
> from getting OUT of the network. But how do I restrict any internal
> machine from contacting a SPECIFIC IP address, but allow it to
> contact others. I really do not want to run a software firewall just
> on this one machine. Since I only have a 2 machine network and the
> firewall in the WGRT does just fine.
>
> After reading the docs in the router's pdf file, all I could find is
> how to block contacts to specific PORTS, or how to block INTERNAL IP
> Addresses from using specific ports.
>
> Before you ask I do not know which port that program tries to
> contact at that address. The article only listed the IP address that
> the program tries to contact not the port. AND NO I have not run the
> program yet and done a netstat. I would like to find out how to
> block contact to that ip address even before I run the program.
>
> Thanks and I hope this is clear enough
>
>
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