Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:18:05 -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: <199809260618.XAA00561@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:58:10 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809260046540.24175-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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> > > > 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. > > Wether it is or not is irrelevant, unfortunately. If they say we gotta > have it, well, we gotta have it. :-( You need to be making it clear that what they're saying can't be done. > > This is something akin to trying to keep back the tide, but it's a > > deployable solutiuon based on free tools. > > I may have found what I was looking for, though... Someone packaged up > some redirector stuff for Squid that would let me stick a list of sites > somewhere and Squid would redirect them to a page telling them they've > been naughty. The only problem at that point is coming up with a > maintained list of the sites. They expect you to proactively pursue this list as well? How do they propose to avoid the blacklist being used to promote a politicial agenda? I realise this is probably too little too late, but http://www.peacefire.org is probably a good place to be looking at. -- \\ 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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