Re: [arturo@mezcal.dyndns.org: Re: [seul-edu] Filters for SQUID]

[Jim Wildman <jawildman@cfanet.com>]

With squidguard, that is as easy as editing the config file and 
squid -k reconfigure

The thing that squidguard has that I don't see the other solutions
having is the ability to block by requesting id, by time and by
destination.  So no cnn except during lunch, etc.

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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Arturo Espinosa Aldama wrote:

> On Sun, 21 May 2000, mrzenn wrote:
> 
> > IPChains will become somewhat outmoded soon (depending on how fast the
> > 2.4 kernel comes out.  Its new tool will be netfilter - which does not
> > use the same command set, but will be more robust).
> > 
> > Shouldt squid handle what you are asking for?
> 
> Yes, you're right (and all of the earlier posters). The problem of
> blocking information at the IP level is that you can only block specific
> IP addresses. It is not right to block all of xoom.com, just because you
> saw a porn site in there.
> 
> Still, we need a fast and easy way to let the user say "no more Internet
> traffic for the moment", without hanging up the phone. Some people have
> told me that, while the teacher is giving some class in the lab, some
> students are using the web, napster or irc.
> 
> So maybe we should be using squidguard + something easier that deactivates
> ip forwarding, and that's it. I wonder if it is possible to program GNOME
> applets from Perl...
> 
> Arturo
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