Are any of the network admins/engineers on here blocking their users streaming the world cup? If so what methods are you employing?
As a rule we have no problems with our users streaming, but for network stability reasons, and managers wanting office staff to actually do work during world cup matches, we have decided try and block any sites streaming the world cup.
We don’t really have a proxy server (such as websense etc...) that would provide us with any website categorisation, and seen as most sites stream over TCP port 80, rather than RTSP, we cannot block it by protocol.
so far we have resulted to blocking the IP's of the main sites (we are in the UK, so BBC, ITV etc....) and we are monitoring the list of URL's being access during matches to try and spot any foreign sites, and adding them to the list.
Does anyone else have a different approach that might be more successful?
Jamie Parks
Network Engineer, UK