From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 25 18:50:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02164 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02155 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02947; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809260155.SAA02947@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Dillon cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:45:43 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:55:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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