Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:43:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809260133390.24175-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <199809260618.XAA00561@word.smith.net.au>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > 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. I may have to prove this to them first. I'll worry about that if it comes to it, though. :-) > > > 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? Erm, dunno. It just makes sense to update it at least once in a blue moon.. Sites appear/move/disappear every day, ya know. > I realise this is probably too little too late, but > http://www.peacefire.org is probably a good place to be looking at. Aaah, great site! Definately gonna have to show the boss this one. All the little gory details I find out about on Monday, though. All I know at the moment is "We need to do Internet filtering", and "We have a grant to do it, but we're running out of time... Details on Monday." I just figured I'd try and get a head start and see what was available for FreeBSD before I said "Yeah, we can do it with what we've got". > > -- > \\ 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 > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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