From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 28 15:02:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05323 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05303 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24122; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19980928150346.H29298@orcrist.mediacity.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:03:46 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Chris Dillon , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Dillon on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:45:43PM -0500 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:45:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > Sigh. Looks like Missouri is going to require that all K12 schools > eventually implement "web-filtering" sometime in the near future. At > the moment we have a grant, with not much time left to use it, that will > let us buy what we need to do this. I was _really really_ hoping that I > could find something that would work with FreeBSD (or BSDi, or Linux, or > Solaris/x86, but PLEASE for the love of god don't make me use NT!). I As ineffective (and wrong) as this is, there exist tools to do it. I currently use an ad-blocker called Internet Junkbuster, by the anti- advertising group Junkbusters . You could easily use that to do general web-filtering based on DNS or path name. I see someone already pointed you to Peacefire; it's a good place. Best of luck fighting this! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Black holes were created mailto:gsutter@pobox.com when God divided by zero. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message