On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:05:41 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:55:41PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall > > which will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites > > for my kids as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of > > squidguard and dansguardian, but don't know of others to consider, > > if there are any. > > > > Does anyone have thoughts about either of these possibilities? The > > only previous post I found concerning both turned out to be a > > discussion about using one in particular. > > > > My current (Shorewall based) firewall is my original 486/66 (48 Mb > > ram) which also works well as our gateway. I don't know what this > > will do to it, though. Anybody have thoughts about this part? <snip> > The main detraction to dansguardian is that it posts a big "denied" > page up for anything that was denied. For some banners, you just want > a transparent drop. What I do at home is control this via DNS, > declare myself authoritative for a number of domains, send all traffic > to a virtualhost on my local webserver, and serve up a light green 1x1 > PNG for all requests (the blocked content). Results can be seen at: > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/green-is-blocked-ads.png <snip> Adzapper is another way to serve a small image instead of a big denied page. Then you don't have to go to the trouble of dns games, either. As with dansguardian, it's available in Woody. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #35: A truly stable environment would be a concrete basement with no Windows! Computers are no different. http://www.linux.org
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