Re: Good Internet Filtering

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  As a school IT director we are forced by the state to have a Internet
>Filtering up and running when the kids come back to school.
>The other day, a IT bubba at Burr Oak Tool and Gauge showed me
>something
>that was pretty interesting. He used Squid with Squid guard on his
>Linux
>(Red Hat 6.2) and can limit the access to the internet.
>He has a list  of sites (Downloaded from a vendors website) and people
>can not get to those sites. He also has a list contains the ACL for the
>work. You must have a login and password to get out.
>I thought that was pretty interesting and would like to check this out.
>Does anyone know of another possible Internet filtering or blocking
>package that I can run on a Linux box. I would like to keep Linux
>running in our network but, we are finding it hard to run applications
>on Linux.

We also you Squid to allow/deny internet access.  It performs this task very
handily.  You might want to check the Squid site, there is quite a bit of
"related" software for using Squid in specific applications.




Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505