HELP!!

[krnspwn]

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[johnnyis42]

first off, if your service agreement for network usage specifically states that you cannot look at adult material on college bandwidth, then usually they block those sites with their proxy. you may want to call your LAN admins and ask them what the policy is, explain you have recently had problems with roomates and friends on your computer and you want to make sure you are taking the necessary precautions not to get yourself in trouble. tell them you are password protecting your logon and what not, they will understand.

the admins, especially at a place like UCLA, should be really cool about it, and really don't care what you use your computer for so long as you're talking to them about what you can and can't do instead of your buddy who said he heard someone say you could do blah blah blah. they are always willing to work with you when you work with them.

as to your first question, no, your history is on your computer only. however, with a major university network, i guarentee there is a proxy server for http requests, and that proxy has a cache which tracks EVERYONE's internet activity. that would be the mechanism they would use to block certain sites. however, consider how many dorm residents use the internet, and that should give you an idea of the chance that someone gets snagged for visiting one unauthorized site.

as for your ip address, it depends whether you're on DHCP or if they assign your address statically, of if there is a logon mechanism to do DHCP with login. the thing is, even if your ip changes, there is a good chance they can link activity at a given time to a MAC address, which they can use to find a specific computer that has changed ip addresses. if you have a network logon then your current ip address is completely meanningless because they can just check who the logged on user was with the address at the time.

ok, the bottom line: don't sweat it. call the admins and get the straight word on their policy. ask them if they have an internal page that gives updated news ont he local network usage policy. the bottom line is that UCLA probably does not care if one of their students occasionally checks out adult sites. they are more concerned with other things that are much, much bigeer problems ont heir network than joe blow or jane blow checking out adult content, especially when it is assumed their network users are most likely over 18 anyhow.

remember, your admins are human, and most likely are graduate students. i'll leave it at that.

[johnnyis42]

first off, if your service agreement for network usage specifically states that you cannot look at adult material on college bandwidth, then usually they block those sites with their proxy. you may want to call your LAN admins and ask them what the policy is, explain you have recently had problems with roomates and friends on your computer and you want to make sure you are taking the necessary precautions not to get yourself in trouble. tell them you are password protecting your logon and what not, they will understand.

the admins, especially at a place like UCLA, should be really cool about it, and really don't care what you use your computer for so long as you're talking to them about what you can and can't do instead of your buddy who said he heard someone say you could do blah blah blah. they are always willing to work with you when you work with them.

as to your first question, no, your history is on your computer only. however, with a major university network, i guarentee there is a proxy server for http requests, and that proxy has a cache which tracks EVERYONE's internet activity. that would be the mechanism they would use to block certain sites. however, consider how many dorm residents use the internet, and that should give you an idea of the chance that someone gets snagged for visiting one unauthorized site.

as for your ip address, it depends whether you're on DHCP or if they assign your address statically, of if there is a logon mechanism to do DHCP with login. the thing is, even if your ip changes, there is a good chance they can link activity at a given time to a MAC address, which they can use to find a specific computer that has changed ip addresses. if you have a network logon then your current ip address is completely meanningless because they can just check who the logged on user was with the address at the time.

ok, the bottom line: don't sweat it. call the admins and get the straight word on their policy. ask them if they have an internal page that gives updated news ont he local network usage policy. the bottom line is that UCLA probably does not care if one of their students occasionally checks out adult sites. they are more concerned with other things that are much, much bigeer problems ont heir network than joe blow or jane blow checking out adult content, especially when it is assumed their network users are most likely over 18 anyhow.

remember, your admins are human, and most likely are graduate students. i'll leave it at that.

[johnnyis42]

sorry about the double post, kinda clicked too many times. moderator, please delete this post and the duplicate.

thanks