From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 25 23:13:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25077 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles128.castles.com [208.214.165.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25049 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00561; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:18:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809260618.XAA00561@word.smith.net.au> 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 "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:58:10 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:18:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > 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