Web Gateway and March Madness

[dshock]

Opening a discussion thread for everyone to collaborate on how to deny access to March Madness streaming.

[Regis]

A fine idea.  Is there a way to preview the sites involved prior to the tournament starting I wonder.

[feeeds]

You could start with the usual suspects, CBS, ESPN etc.  I think you will need to test with rule tracing to get the biggest hitters.  We also squash a lot of this on the routers, by not giving this traffic priority, so it makes it painful for the user.

[dshock]

Here's a rule that denies access to the main NCAA.com streaming link and also denies requests that include a referer for NCAA streaming URLs. In testing it seems to deny access to the stream on NCAA.com, cbssports, tnt, tbs, and trutv.

[wcransto]

If for some reason this ruleset doesn't work as expected, let us know what sites you are able to access the video on, what browser is being used and a rule trace if possible. Testing with IE, Chrome and Firefox has been blocking all of the videos for me.