Re: Blocking ip address on RH8

[Jim Vellenga]

You are correct, at least, adding the sites I want to block to hosts.deny 
doesn't do anything for web-pages.  I have never used squid before, and 
just masq the internet connections using iptables (a protocol that I still 
find cryptic)  I guess I will have to learn some more :)  My hope is that 
squid is easy to set-up.  Once more into the breach. . ..

Jim


Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but the tcp_wrappers
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are for _incoming_ daemon
connections that are compiled against tcp_wrappers.
Want to block access to some sites?  Use Squid.  It's included on the
Red Hat v8 cdroms.
Edit the /etc/squid/squid.conf file and you can block access like this:

acl     blockedsites    dstdomain       .microsoft.com
acl     blockedsites    dstdomain       .hotmail.com
http_access     deny    blockedsites

These lines have to be in certain sections on the configuration file,
order does matter.
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