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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:08:45 +0700 (ICT)
From:      Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND
Message-ID:  <200712280508.lBS58jLo022219@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750712272037x594336efndcd136ee2101e3e7@mail.gmail.com> (mkhitrov@gmail.com)
References:  <26ddd1750712271246j14795cf3wf8e9727f0f7cc148@mail.gmail.com> <47744048.6020202@daleco.biz> <26ddd1750712272037x594336efndcd136ee2101e3e7@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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