Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:03:46 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@mediacity.com> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980928150346.H29298@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809252033570.23452-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:45:43PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809252033570.23452-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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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 <http://www.junkbusters.org/>. 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
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