Guide: Blocking Facebook and GChat/Hangouts through basic firewall

[goodtofufriday]

Hey all, i wanted to post this guide somewhere visible, since pretty much all of the internet does not have an easy way to do this outside of having equipment with settings built in to block either the gchat service or to blacklist https domains. 

 

After going over how hangouts/chat connects and facebook I figured out how to block both from a long series  of address. It still leaves gmail completely usable. 

 

Facebook will be blocked in and outside of a domain login on any browser.

gchat/hangouts will be blocked in all browsers when logged in via domain , BUT oddly it will only be blocked in IE when logged in with a Windows 10 Microsoft Live Account (on my computer). I do not know why. 

 

There might be some extra fluff in there, but it works and I don't feel like shrinking it down. Let me know if this does or doesn't work for you. 

 

Facebook:

 

facebook.com

*.facebook.com

www.facebook.com

login.facebook.com

www.login.facebook.com

fbcdn.net

www.fbcdn.net

fbcdn.com

www.fbcdn.com

static.ak.fbcdn.net

static.ak.connect.facebook.com

connect.facebook.net

www.connect.facebook.net

apps.facebook.com

edge-star6-shv-02-ams2.facebook.com

 

Gchat/Hangouts:

 

hangouts.google.com/webchat/u/0/frame2?v=1460666078&pvt=amp3uwbpkbwbqv7iwuz30bb9uxdgdyv4ezberjpnta4nik5hxa4iylldjcrfpb2zkd1chjai9jx5o7hg-jrdjutmrn2vefesrw%3d%3d&prop=gmail&hl=en#e%5b%22wblh0.8407004639302937-0%22,2,1,%5btrue,%5b%5d%5d%5d

client5.google.com

client6.google.com

ssl.gstatic.com

hangouts.google.com

plus.google.com

plus.google.com/hangouts/_/

plus.google.com/hangouts

 

 

[MSWindowsinside]

My only question would be: why block these adresses? 

[goodtofufriday]

2 hours ago, MSWindowsinside said:

My only question would be: why block these adresses? 

Mostly small businesses that can't, or won't, buy equipment that can easily do this. 

[MSWindowsinside]

15 hours ago, goodtofufriday said:

Mostly small businesses that can't, or won't, buy equipment that can easily do this. 

Ah ok, seems fair.