Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:35:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@mediacity.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URL Based Filtering on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809281733380.6610-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980928150346.H29298@orcrist.mediacity.com>
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 08:45:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > 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 > > As ineffective (and wrong) as this is, there exist tools to do it. I > currently use an ad-blocker called Internet Junkbuster, by the anti- > advertising group Junkbusters <http://www.junkbusters.org/>. You could > easily use that to do general web-filtering based on DNS or path name. > > I see someone already pointed you to Peacefire; it's a good place. > Best of luck fighting this! Thanks for the info. I saw info on JunkBuster when I was looking through the Squid pages. Not sure if I want to fight all this just yet, though. I don't want to come off as some person who always goes against the grain. Everyone here is probably already sick of my Anti-Windows talk. :-) -- 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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