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> Again, I'm not trying to convince you otherwise or say that using
> BIND is a bad idea.  It's just that I'm curious because we use
> Squid for this sort of thing, and I was wondering why BIND instead?

I think another issue is that Squid will only filter HTTP/FTP
connections, while DNS would allow to filter any type of traffic that
would try to go to places with a bad name.

Olivier