Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:55:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199809260155.SAA02947@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:45:43 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809252033570.23452-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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> 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 > can't remember if you can do URL based filtering in Squid or not.. If > so, maybe if I could get a (maintained) plaintext version of "bad" sites > I could hack it into Squid. :-) URL filtering is ineffective; there are trivial ways around it. If you want to/have to go with this, you'll want to put up firewall machines and IP blacklists. This is something akin to trying to keep back the tide, but it's a deployable solutiuon based on free tools. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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