Block Dropbox

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[sree]

Dear All,
How to block dropbox in firewall, I have tried blocking *.getdropbox.com and dropbox.com in the content filter but still people are using it.
Is there anyway that I can block 'exe' s


Regards,
Sree

[madhatt]

why are you trying to block it?  probably would be better to uninstall it from the network?

[sree]

I have 600 Machines in my network, its not applicable to go and uninstall in every systems.

[scottcsmit]

why are you not wanting your users to use dropbox, My boss is pushing us to use dropbox is there something i should know about dropbox?

[susantadutta84]

i am not xure about this but you can try this

By blocking the entire /24 (208.43.202.0) anyone on the corporate network would be unable to sync files within the dropbox application and also be unable to reach the Dropbox website. You could allow users to hit the dropbox website by specifying a separate policy for HTTP to 208.43.202.50. That would allow users to pull up the website and nothing more as Dropbox requires HTTPS to operate and will not work with HTTP alone.

the log of the block policy shows which restricts the corporate network from reaching 208.43.202.0/24. As you can see, the /24 covers all IPs in the subnet and effectively blocks access 208.43.202.51 which is used to sync files.